I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
Harold BloomRead deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Harold BloomWe read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
Harold BloomRebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.
Harold Bloom