Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained flotsam of your own life. Compulsively recording every morsel you eat, that you're cold, or, I don't know, heartbroken by a football game. An endless stream flowing to an audience of everyone and no one.

Yes. Well, as I said, love can haunt us, and make us do strange things.

One single word – like EMERGENCY, or love – can revise a whole night. A whole life.

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors’ collective and collaborative minds at work.

Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.