Quotes About Community

I told my parents she's a low-income student from inner-city Philadelphia who's going through some tough times at home right now, and I'm doing this as an outreach program through Rosewood Day. Amazingly, they bought it.

also want to say one more thing about the content of this book. Influence includes a lot of bullying and nastiness, and I want to make it clear that it's something I don't condone. I truly hope that the internet becomes a kinder, more accepting place, not a more hateful one. So please, think before you post a comment. Consider that on the other end of an account, there's a living, breathing person with feelings. Be good to one another. And sometimes?

Es como todos esos sentimientos de "¿Dónde encajo yo?" y "¿Por qué no puedo encontrar a alguien con quien hablar?" Creo que todo el mundo se siente así de vez en cuando.

It saddens me how social media has changed the way we interact with one another.

It was the kind of herd mentality that was so prevalent in this world - when one person was doing something that looked amazing in photos, the community followed suit, even if it meant completely uprooting one's life.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Writers need each other.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

We are home to each other now.

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.

I do think music teaches us the thing we most want to know: that we are not alone. On the other hand–remember I have reserved the right to be inconsistent–surely the only truth is that we are, in the end, alone.

When well told and well lived by the storytellers, worship, like story itself, offers opportunities for the imagination to be nurtured and transformed.