Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
"Mr. Mailer Interviews Himself" in The New York Times Book Review (17 September 1965)
“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Enshrined
“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.”
Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 25.
