Absorb Quote by Richard Jefferies

Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a…

— William Matthews

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Italo Calvino

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

— Italo Calvino

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

— Augusten Burroughs

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

The first thing reading teaches, is how to be alone.

— Jonathan Fianzen

Man is what he reads.

— Joseph Brodsky

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

— David Samuels

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its…

— Paul Auster

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf