Harold Bloom Quotes

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.