Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
Tao Lin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tao Lin
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: July 2
Novelist
Poet
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Around
Look
Looks
Feel
Scared
Sometimes
Computer
Feels
Room
Mean
Rooms
Really
Alone
More quotes by Tao Lin
Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.
Tao Lin
Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
Tao Lin
Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.
Tao Lin
Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.
Tao Lin
The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.
Tao Lin
I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection with people my age I wouldn't have written six books about feeling depressed, alienated, lonely. If I did I would have many friends and feel connected with them and probably be a happy person who has a real job.
Tao Lin
If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with marketing or other things like that.
Tao Lin
I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.
Tao Lin
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.
Tao Lin
I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.
Tao Lin
I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.
Tao Lin
It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen.
Tao Lin
But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.
Tao Lin
On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.
Tao Lin
I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.
Tao Lin
You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
Tao Lin
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning.
Tao Lin
I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.
Tao Lin
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon.
Tao Lin
It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives.
Tao Lin
