Harold Bloom Quotes

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I am always writing to myself.

I just wanna hear my own voice.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about these introspective things.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.