Real reading is a lonely activity.
Harold BloomWhat matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Harold BloomWe 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. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.
Harold BloomReading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold BloomTag: words reading books solitude literature
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
Harold BloomAs 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 BloomNot a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
Harold BloomTag: critics academic lemmings
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 BloomTag: reading literature western-canon
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
Harold BloomI 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.
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