Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.
