Reading and Writing

“People do not read fiction or watch films as observers. Rather they are drawn to participate in the story, making it reality. This has seve...

"The world is divided between readers and non-readers – and the difference between the two is enormous and unbridgeable. Readers absorb...

The people and the revolution that sent tremors through the United States and the Vatican: The 1960s sparked revolutionary changes that swep...

"The function of a committed writer is to reveal the world so that every reader loses her innocence and assumes all her responsibilitie...

"While each of us only gets one life, and one span of time in which to live it, reading allows us to enter the lives of other people li...

A book that was published in 1943, but... "One chapter in particular might have been written in 2012, not 1943. Its title: "Politi...

I was in the dog park, on the beach, completely engrossed in The Brothers Karamazov, when a poodle came up, with a man attached at the other...

WikiLeaks may cease to exists because there is no way to support it financially (though not for the lack of will among the 99-percenters). ...

Le Clezio, recipient of Nobel prize for literature: "books have played an essential role in the development of the world, by granting u...

Feeling foggy about the world around you? Read literature: "Literary works are portrayals of the thinking patterns and social norms pre...

William Penn University advises students to "become more interested in the world instead of becoming more interesting to the world...

I am slowly collecting information for my next book, and found some details from the period that it is set in: In order to apply for a passp...

One concept corrupts and confuses the others... I am speaking of the infinite ... We (the undivided divinity that operates within us) have d...