My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.