Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.