Books Quote by Harold Bloom

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

— Annie Dillard

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

— Harold Bloom

Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom,…

— Annie Dillard

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

— Mark Strand

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

We read because we are essentially alone.

— Jessica Zafra

“We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our…

— Alberto Manguel

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an…

— Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

— Ernest Dimnet

The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

We were searching for ourselves in each other.

— Sergei Parajanov