Rainy day Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Italo Calvino

“Reading is not lonely.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

“We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a…

— Brenda Walker

“Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to go.”

— Satinder Bhatti

“Reading sends you on one adventure after the other. It's a way to escape from the world, and comfort you at all times, no…

— Anonymous

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he…

— John Steinbeck

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the most healing…

— Harold Bloom

“With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.”

— Alice Kaplan

“I can’t help but think about the concept of loneliness, of having no one – how tangible melancholy is.”

— Carol Mason

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind…

— Bruce Obee