Quotes

Twenty-six letters.

Neil Gaiman, excerpt from Brain Pickings,  “Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience

When you watch TV or see a film, you are looking at things happening to other people. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes. You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone else out there is a me, as well. You’re being someone else, and when you return to your own world, you’re going to be slightly changed.  — Neil Gaiman

 

Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience

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