I received this tweet from @Libarbarian Peter Bailey:
“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book”.
How true is that? This is the best way to explain why we love to read, isn’t it?
If someone isn’t a reader, he is never going to be able to see other perspectives, choices and possibilities as well as someone who’s had the opportunity to live through them in a character’s life.
We have lifetimes to explore, and between the pages of a book, we can experience them all. It gives us a wider range of tools to draw on as we sort out our own complicated lives. Reading is practice for reality.
Shawn L. Bird 