Harold Bloom: Read

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

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

“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

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

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

“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.”

“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

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