Focus Quote by Augusten Burroughs

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

— Harold Bloom

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

“The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.”

— Tonya Sheridan

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

— Mason Cooley

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

— Eugenie de Guerin

“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and is best…

— Andrew Cook

“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one.…

— J. Paul Hunter

“The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed. ~…

— Tonya Sheridan

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

— Anonymous

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

— Jose Saramago

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

— Taylor Momsen