Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.

Lisa Cron
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We’re in the middle of the story and we’re not passively reading about something that’s happening to someone else. We’re actually living it. That means we can get lost in a book and take away lessons from it that we can apply to our own lives.

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