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Tag: fiction, reading

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

fiction, reading

[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written.

fiction, reading

Mario Vargas Llosa

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

fiction, reading

Mario Vargas Llosa

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

fiction, reading

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

fiction, reading

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives

fiction, reading

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

fiction, reading

[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written.

fiction, reading

Mario Vargas Llosa

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

fiction, reading

Mario Vargas Llosa

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

fiction, reading

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

fiction, reading

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives

fiction, reading