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Reading Quotes by Harold Bloom
- Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
- Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you…
- Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct…
- People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach…
- In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
- Real reading is a lonely activity.
- We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…
- 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…
- The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
- Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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