The End of Solitude Quotes

“Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking; it impairs your ability to think. Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas: thinking for yourself. Which is something that you simply cannot do in bursts of twenty seconds at a time, interrupted constantly by Facebook messages or Twitter tweets or fiddling with your iPod or watching YouTube.”
― William Deresiewicz, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society

“Boredom is not a necessary consequence of having nothing to do; it is only the negative experience of that condition.”
― William Deresiewicz, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society

“Hell is other people.”
― William Deresiewicz, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society