About This Quote
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. This quote can be read as a statement about the purpose of reading.
We read to understand the character of others around us. But, as we all know, this is not always easy to do. That’s why some people prefer to write characters that they want to be like.
However, these characters are often so different from those around them that it can be hard for them to understand the character of those around them. It is difficult for us all to understand one another and even harder when we don’t even know what we look like inside.
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