Rainbow Rowell Quotes

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

A big difference between podcasts and radio is the intimacy. Radio oftentimes feels big and loud. To me, podcasting is closest to that weird late night stuff, whether it's late night love song request lines, or it's some talk radio show where you feel like you're the only person listening to it.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

I know you pretty well." "Better than anyone I think." I smiled. Her compliment was like a gift itself, only more precious than anything that could be bought.

I don't know how to speak to everybody, only to somebody.

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.