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“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.”

Fiction Loneliness Relieved

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.”

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Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)”

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Author:Jonathan Franzen

“The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.”

Purpose Fiction Loneliness Combat

Author:Josh Radnor

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion - these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”

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Author:Hilma Wolitzer

“Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”

Fiction Loneliness Treated

Author:David Foster Wallace

“If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.”

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Author:Denis Johnson

“Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl