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Harold Bloom quotes about reading

American Critic July 11, 1930

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One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life. Harold Bloom
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. Harold Bloom
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. Harold Bloom
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent. Harold Bloom
The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written. Harold Bloom
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; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Harold Bloom
If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. Harold Bloom
...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "Real reading is a lonely activity."
Real reading is a lonely activity. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than..."
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can..."
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human...."
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. Harold Bloom
As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind..."
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom quote: "I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my..."
I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. Harold Bloom

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