| ‘If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.’
Haruki Murakam
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I love this quote. I’ve always read widely and without any sense of purpose. I love discovery. The thrill of a new topic, a different way of looking at things and reading provides this. I can’t properly describe the thrill discovering new writers, even if they were long before my time or today’s writers. I have a tendency to avoid the best sellers list. I like books I can get my teeth into. Books that I have to pause, put down, and sometimes just take a breath. Some books I love for the sheer ride, the thrill of entering another world for a short period of time, those books, some of them bestsellers, are the icing on the cake. But the books I love are the solid reads. I like a book that slows my mind down. Haruki Murakam is one of those writers. His quote really expresses the capability of books to transform our minds and our worlds. We are what we read and that directly influences what we write.
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Very true, Susan! I like to read a mixture of things myself… variety is the spice of life after all! Here’s to different thoughts!!!
Hi Tom!!! True true and I also think as a writer, it’s important to read a wide variety of other writers so you don’t get stuck into one writing style! Experiment! 🙂
I love your last line. May I quote it and link it to you?
wonderful quote…thank you so much for sharing! 🙂 Its so very true.
I just fell in love with it the first time I read it, and it keeps growing on me.
I love to discover new (even if just to me) writers so I’m always looking for a good steady source. I have some biz type books I need to get through right now and that type of requirement makes me long to pick up old favorites. Which can be dangerously distracting because I know exactly how much fun it can be to traipse around w/certain beloved authors (Hunter Thompson) for a bit. It’s so easy to get sucked back down the same old rabbit hole if I don’t have something tempting lined up.
I’m always curious to know what people are reading! Bill Gates just shared his summer reading list on his blog and John Cusack made an excited recommendation on twitter recently so- thanks to social media- my booklist is currently stacked (though still constantly craving).
Hi Kim, thanks for stopping by and visiting my little world. I am just like you, I love discovering new writers and to me, that also means new worlds!