Harold Bloom: Quotes about reading

Harold Bloom was American literary critic and scholar. Explore interesting quotes on reading.

Harold Bloom: 26 quotes 0 likes

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

Harold Bloom

Pleasure , Solitude , Reading

“Real reading is a lonely activity.”

Harold Bloom book The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Reading

“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”

Harold Bloom

Hope , Reading

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

Harold Bloom

Reading

“I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J. K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.”

Harold Bloom

Sadness , Reading

“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

Harold Bloom book How to Read and Why

Source: How to Read and Why

Nature , Learning , Reading

“I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.”

Harold Bloom

People , Reading