Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
Ian McewanWhen its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.
Ian McewanIn a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.
Ian Mcewan