Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 23:53:08 GMT -5
By now we all know that to learn to write you need to read and write a lot, but reading is certainly not the prerogative of writers. Even though I have always dreamed of writing books - my first "publishing projects" date back to pre-adolescence - when I started to love reading, to read books every day, I had long since abandoned the publishing dream, which I only resumed several years later . I read a lot, perhaps a lot – if the superlative in an activity like reading is allowed. I buy many books, perhaps very many – and here the superlative is more than permitted, because I buy more than I can read, more than I can afford. But I need to read . And to buy books, which I then read, of course.
A little at a time, 2 at a time I read them. Reading books relieves my stress My existential stress. I consider myself a prisoner of an era that I don't love, which actually disgusts me in many ways, which Special Data doesn't belong to me. Prisoner also in a country where people lived better 30-40 years ago. Reading books relieves this stress of mine, it makes me forget my era and my country of this era. Reading, as I have written several times, I go elsewhere, Salgarian traveling without luggage, the only baggage is a book. A book holds a small world, in which many lives live, different from ours. They are silent lives, they have a voice, they only come to life when we begin to leaf through the pages of that book, to read their stories and vicissitudes.
By reading I appropriate those lives, those small worlds that do not exist except in the pages of the book, in the author's imagination. Reading books increases my imagination Perhaps Stephen King also meant this: reading a lot improves writing because it makes our imagination richer. I remember the times when I was lost in my publishing dreams without having read even a dozen books. And when I started writing a fantasy, with only one fantasy novel read. And horror stories, after having read only some stories by Poe and those by Lovecraft. Now that I have hundreds of books read behind me, I can see the difference. Ideas are no longer the product of one or two books read, but the fruit of years of reading, of a more solid and more mature reading experience. Reading is an economical pastime As long as you contain yourself in the frenetic buying of books.
A little at a time, 2 at a time I read them. Reading books relieves my stress My existential stress. I consider myself a prisoner of an era that I don't love, which actually disgusts me in many ways, which Special Data doesn't belong to me. Prisoner also in a country where people lived better 30-40 years ago. Reading books relieves this stress of mine, it makes me forget my era and my country of this era. Reading, as I have written several times, I go elsewhere, Salgarian traveling without luggage, the only baggage is a book. A book holds a small world, in which many lives live, different from ours. They are silent lives, they have a voice, they only come to life when we begin to leaf through the pages of that book, to read their stories and vicissitudes.
By reading I appropriate those lives, those small worlds that do not exist except in the pages of the book, in the author's imagination. Reading books increases my imagination Perhaps Stephen King also meant this: reading a lot improves writing because it makes our imagination richer. I remember the times when I was lost in my publishing dreams without having read even a dozen books. And when I started writing a fantasy, with only one fantasy novel read. And horror stories, after having read only some stories by Poe and those by Lovecraft. Now that I have hundreds of books read behind me, I can see the difference. Ideas are no longer the product of one or two books read, but the fruit of years of reading, of a more solid and more mature reading experience. Reading is an economical pastime As long as you contain yourself in the frenetic buying of books.