Why are we reading?

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened, and its deepest mystery probed? … Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaning, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?

– Annie Dillard

4 thoughts on “Why are we reading?”

  1. Oh oh oh. Gorgeous. So obvious, really, but to say it so eloquently! Thank you for sharing this gem.

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