Rabih AlameddineI long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
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J.K. Rowling said: “I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.” J K Rowling has said that she loves reading and writing as a way to escape from the day-to-day, as a way of making the mundane more interesting and the ordinary extraordinary. She says that reading and writing helps her to transport herself into another world and another time – and that this is what she needs to do right now: To be transported into new worlds and different times, to be alive and engaged and amused and amazed by new words and images and ideas.
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
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