A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.
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.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.