“The best books…
Are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell, 1984
“I have a passion
for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not
daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting, and
wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” – Roald
Dahl
And as the title says, books are life, well, at least they are to me. Books give us imagination, they give us an escape of the real world, they give us so many things. A book is less fragile than technology and doesn't have the problems that technical devices have. You can read it in bed or in the bathtub, take it with you on a picnic, fall asleep with it -- it's durable and never needs charging. Books can't crash, don't need software updates, can't be hacked. Books can get damp, stomped on and dropped. Books can be shared without worry, because they're never too expensive. You don't have to wait for them to download either. Books are personal. You can smell a book, feel texture, see what a friend leaves you a note in the margins and find the stain left over from that time you drank fine wine while reading it in a Paris cafe, even though that I personally have never even been to Europe. But that's not going to stop me from going there or anything like that. They're also given as gifts, saved as family heirlooms, conserved and protected as pieces of history. Books can't spam you with ads or all kinds of other junk like that. They don't ask you for your email address, they don't keep track of your cookies, they never force you to look at pop-ups. Books don't distract you with flashing games and chat windows and they don't bombard you with junk. They are just a lot of things filled with words of everything that are in life, they could be about anything in the whole world. Writing a book isn't really easy, but the stories that are in actual books can inspire everyone, everything and anyone and anything in the whole entire world. Writing and reading books are two of my favorite things to do in the whole entire world. But it's sometimes just so hard because I might have writers block or I might have be having a reading slump, I might be inspired and actually write somethings and then forget when I am inspired. Or I might not even have time to do it at all, but it still doesn't stop me from writing or reading and it's just two of the greatest things in the whole entire world. They've both brought happiness to my life and I am really home when I'm writing a story and reading a book. Books are my life, even though I am on my computer, on my phone, doing other things and also doing other things outside of my house, books are still my life. And so is writing, I've always wanted to be a writer, just like J.K. Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, J.D. Salinger and many of the other great writers out there as far back as I can remember doing so. Reading and writing are two of the most greatest things that actually fill my life, a part from doing other things that are not reading or writing. Everything about writing and reading really makes me feel like I'm home and when I'm reading and writing, I feel like I'm in a world of my own, like there is this shield that protecting me from the real world. I've read once that books are like portable magic and that they're really great friends, you can just call them up when ever you want, but I don't think that that happens very often.
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” – Stephen King
“Here is a lesson
in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. There are transvestite
hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been
to college.” – Kurt Vonnegut, A Man
Without a Country
And all of these authors are right about what they're saying writing about. So, that's all for right now. Thank you for reading if you have gotten this far. I'll write you next time!!
