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Tag: why people read

  • There’s No Answer To the Question – Why Read?

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    Still plugging my way through NaNoWriMo (so far on track, by the way, thanks for asking), so it’s another shorter post this week! It follows up nicely to last week’s post on Neil Gaiman’s opinion on the value of reading, actually. Sure, why not fight this argument out some more? We all know reading is…

  • Why You Read, Why I Write:

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    “To some degree, we thrust ourselves into the hands of a storyteller, trusting that he will deliver us safely from a daydream that swiftly turns into a nightmare.” (The Passive Voice, quoting David Farland) What should stories do – teach us something about reality, or allow us to escape from reality? Those that are more…