Two Quotes on the impact of Book reading
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. Lewis
There are books that are of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes only once, while a book explodes a thousand times.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
I found these quotes while hunting down information on Alethea Hayter, author of A Sultry Month, which was recently re-published. The quotes were found on the Royal Society of Literature: https://rsliterature.org/
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