People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
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To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
I don't very often read novels.
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.