A Quote by Josh Radnor

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

Josh Radnor

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Josh Radnor
American - Director
Born: July 29, 1974

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.

David Foster Wallace

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

David Foster Wallace

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.)

Jonathan Franzen

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

Katie Piper

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Alan Moore

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Ira Glass

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

Guillermo Maldonado

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

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

David Foster Wallace

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

John Irving

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

Mother Angelica

Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.