"Do you know what makes writing great? You believe in the existence of invisible people. You believe. The concepts of another world, another language, another human being’s suffering and doubt. Great books make you forget that it is light outside, they make you want to curl up and live inside of them. The world becomes pale, as the book intensifies your deepest dreams and your most secret nightmares."I guess those lines served me my argument, that reading - and writing - aren't merely to train our language, but are so much more than just that.
the invisible people
I remember my boss once told me to start reading self help and motivational book and said that reading fictions only trains my language and serves no other purpose. I knew right away that he was wrong but I'm not a person who usually organize my thoughts, I didn't have any argument to back me up. This morning I came across a beautiful tumblr blog which I instantly fell in love with, it is as if it speaks in the same frequency as my mind. And on the blog she wrote,
