Reading is an adventure. Adventures are about the unknown. When I started to read seriously I was excited and comforted all at the same time. Literature is a mix of unfamiliarity and recognition. The situation can take us anywhere — across time and space, the globe, through the lives of people who can never be like us — into the heart of anguish we have never felt — crimes we could not commit. Yet as we travel deeper into the strange world of the story, the feeling we get is of being understood […] Books read us back to ourselves.
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Literature | Arts, Reading | Writing
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