Read in order to live - Flaubert | THOUGHTS #2

Read in order to live | Thoughts #2

Since I am becoming a Literature student in September I admire the importance of reading, and the power of reading to me and to others. A book is an escape from reality, your own personal imagination creating a world that your mind goes to every time you turn the pages. Matt Haig (have I mentioned him enough in any other blogpost lol) is the authot of 'Reasons to Stay Alive' and 'How To Stop Time', his twitter defines the magic and pleasure that reading and writing delivers; 'I like the way they open; little doors in to other worlds'. Many people my age or even my friends don't really read, I can see that reading is quite an 'uncool' thing to do, but I think it is coming back. For children I think it is important that they open that imagination when reading, and becoming creative with their ideas and individual thoughts through adolescence. Reading for me makes me feel relaxed and even if its a magazine or the thick pages of War and Peace, I'll always enjoy the way that you can travel to a different time, and be in a characters shoes, when really you're sat still and your brain is the thing that is moving. The first books that made go on to read so much was Jacqueline Wilson and Enid Blyton. The stories, particularly Enid Blyton was very classic, I found a lot of them at my Nan's house from when my Mum and her siblings were growing up so they were at hand to me when I was growing up. Of course those stories would be and are quite controversial in some of the characters and plots, but all the same it created my imagination as it was filled with fairies and fictional creatures and people. Jacqueline Wilson's books was more about people and their issues, it really created a sense of empathy to different social issues; the shift of reality on to paper. Words upon words, upon words that all the literature is but its the techniques that make the piece of writing good. 

Every novel, piece of poetry is influenced by an experience and even if you haven't gone through that experience personally, you can be influenced by that piece of writing. Writing is influencing your brain and your actions, just like anything else you expose yourself to. Overall someones writing is sharing their influential thoughts and personal past experiences, in their own way hoping that their writing will influence their audience in the most positive way as possible.

Rose
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