This post is for everyone over 50 who thinks it’s too late to take up writing. I didn’t take it seriously until I saw my 60th looming on the horizon and I knew if I was going to do anything interesting with this part of my life, I’d better get busy. Fast. I jumped in [...]
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Why read?
Posted in reading, tagged books, C.S. Lewis, language, libraries, life, loneliness, quotes, ray bradbury, reading, solitude, thoughts, words, writers, Writing on January 2, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I love C.S. Lewis’s powerfully simple answer: We read to know we are not alone. We learn we are not alone in our struggle to make sense of this world. We learn that everyone throughout time struggles with various aspects of hope and despair, good and evil, love and hate, along with all the varying degrees of [...]
