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Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket
– Harold Bloom

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  2. Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself. – Gregory Woods
  3. When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  4. Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. – M Kirin
  5. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
  6. You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. Born to love, Born to lead.Born to shine, Born to succeed. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  8. She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section. – Joyce Rachelle
  9. Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover – Chloe Neill
  10. I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book – that one book every writer carries within him – the image of his own soul. – Ignazio Silone
  11. Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the ????ing part in writing a book. – MF Moonzajer
  12. Writing a book isn’t just about ‘writing a book.’ Unfortunately, it’s about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. – Margaret Aranda
  13. She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident. – Andrew Hinkinson
  14. Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality. – Dara Reidyr
  15. Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air. – Sidney Knight
  16. their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. – Mark Helprin
  17. She rages through my blood, is etched in my alma, and fused to my corazon.- quote Ricardo Emmanuel De La Cruz.Hot & Enchanting, De La Cruz Saga – PT Macias
  18. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
  19. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
  20. We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom
  21. The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. – Harold Bloom
  22. Emily ????inson sublimely unnames even the blanks. – Harold Bloom
  23. The inventor knows HOW to borrow. – Harold Bloom
  24. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. – Harold Bloom
  25. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. – Harold Bloom
  26. Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. – Harold Bloom
  27. Reviewing bad books is bad for the character -“ WH Auden – Harold Bloom
  28. All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life. – Harold Bloom
  29. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – Harold Bloom
  30. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. – Harold Bloom
  31. There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – Harold Bloom
  32. Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom
  33. Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. – Harold Bloom
  34. A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom
  35. Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human. – Harold Bloom
  36. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom
  37. What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. – Harold Bloom
  38. Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom
  39. Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom
  40. At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom

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