Books Quote by Harold Bloom

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

“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 probably another way of being in a place.

— Jose Saramago

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

— Italo Calvino

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

— Hilary Mantel

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

— Harold Bloom

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a…

— Rey Mysterio

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

— Brian Grazer

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

— Augusten Burroughs

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

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson