Julio Cortazar Quotes

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

I always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.