I read
every day and if I could every hour. I love being sucked into a new world where
my imagination is guided by the author. All the characters come to life and
become actual people. In first person stories it’s almost like playing dress
up. You’re taken into a new world stripped of everything that made you you,
you’re given a whole new life and every turn of the page you become more and
more engulfed by it almost becoming the character, learning to know the other
characters and how they relate to you.
Reading
isn’t just an escape for me, I learn. I learn how the people lived in certain
eras. I learn how certain careers work for example lawyers and doctors. I learn
how some people react in certain social situations.
Another
reason I read is because I’m an artist and books are a good source of inspiration.
Especially fiction with all the crazy situations and interesting creatures and I
get to create them with my own imagination which helps me put them down paper. All
the different things books create they inspire me to create my own.
Books
have really evolved who I am today, they’ve introduced me in to the adult
world. I’ve gone from Dr. Seuss “ The
Foot Book “ to Stephen King and James Patterson.

Strongly written! I like your points about writing in the first person and about the ways fiction can inspire art.
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