William Nicholson Quotes

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

We read to know that we are not alone.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

As actors and directors, I feel like our job, more so than anything else, is to shine a light on a subject and to let people know that they're not alone.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

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.

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

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

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.