""Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
We learn as readers, or we should learn if literature is to have any value to us beyond mere entertainment and time passing.
Life, Lessons,
and Literature
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”