There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.


Open between us (ed. Univ of Michigan Pr, 1980)

David Ignatow Quotes

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other...

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other...

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other...

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other...