About This Quote
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. This is a quote from a man who was born in a time when reading was not a widely used form of entertainment, so his fictitious story books were his only chance to get excited about what was going on in the world. He became a writer to share his own ideas and experiences with others.
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
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