Harold Bloom quotes

" Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. " # Solitude # Books - Reading # Pleasure

" We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. " # Books - Reading

" I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two -- are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. " # Academia # Fools and Foolishness # Women