Friday, January 14, 2011

Food for Thought: Why We Read

"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. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading is the search for a difficult pleasure."
- Harold Bloom

Why do you read?

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