why?

[Monica]

why do you like reading/writing?

i think that my most important reason is just to escape and forget about everything, although it doesn't always work... :nod:

[Jester]

keeps me from forgetting that reality isn't as intereasting as the imagination...

I too like to get lost in novels and sometimes I can write for hours forgetting everything thats happening around me until the fire alarm goes off... :crash:

[Stanislaw]

I read to escape the boring reality and chains of real life. It allows me an interdimentional freedom with endless possibilities, and most importantly it helps me cope with our chaotic world

[Scheherazade]

I too read to get away from daily life but I also read to learn. There is so much to get out of books. A world lying in front of you, without you leaving your home or having to travel miles. Also get to find out what other people are thinking/feeling.

[Jester]

despite loving to read and go on adventures i also love to travel.... i hate flying but when i get someplace i get really engrossed in traveling and have taken up keeping a journal with me so i can pass on my tale to others

[subterranean]

i read coz i love it alot...i bring a book in my bag/purse everywhere..i cant sleep without reading first, i hate waiting something/someone without any book in my hand..hey i even read in boring party which i have to attend...what can i say, it's a part of me :)

[rocksea]

reading is an integral part of me too.. it fills my life.
i read a book when i feel the urge for and i always feel the urge for :)
when i was in school, used to read books, keeping them
under desk, while classes were going on..
you can live many lives through reading!!
mostly, it is an author's life's best reflected thru a book
and it is great u can experience the essence of it in few hours,
at least to some extent!

[mono]

Okay, I probably over-thought this out while sitting here, contemplating a sole reason for reading and writing; however, I cannot think of one satisfying reason why I do both. Perhaps, for me anyway, there exists no reason, but it seems something more performed out of my nature, ruled more by faith and intuition than reason and logic; I have the desire to do both incessantly, mainly out of enjoyment and leisure, but others paint, sculpt, and perform/listen to music to pursue the same ends.
In conclusion, I find that I do not read nor write as a means to anything, but its end of the act in reading or writing comes as naturally gratifying.
Hmm . . .

[ajoe]

Now that I think about it... I don't know.
Just a habit, I guess. And I like to read just so I know.

[Jay]

I like the things reading does to my brain, lol. Like the pictures it makes it to produce. Escaping reality's also important for me. I don't usually enjoy reading stuff I'm 'ordered' to, ie compulsory stuff teachers want students to read, it takes the idea of reading a book out of it (not saying some comulsory books aren't great, just that most of them tend to be rather boring... ish)

[den]

I *have* to read a lot of boring stuff for my work, and school actually, but overall I enjoy it, it's a challenge for me to read something and take from it what I need through critical analysis, discard the rest.

Then there's the stuff I read for pure escapism, can't get enough of that. :D

[Jester]

hey i even read in boring party which i have to attend...what can i say, it's a part of me :)

yeah i end up writing poems on napkins with borrowed dull pencils, its quite an accomplishment to get home later and try to understand it, do that when im at some social gathering

In class i pretend to take notes and end up writing great masterpieces but cannot understand them because by the time i get to typing them out the pencil has faded or smudged and then i used pen but i can't understand my writing, sad.

[caspian]

Once it happened so I couldn't have time for reading any literature work for a year. And when I got it again I realized that I was starving for them. Now I'm sure that I'm reading just to feed my soul.
Have you ever gotten fear that you may get blind and won't able to read? I often had when I was quite young and reading was everything for me. :lol:

[simon]

I read to escape the boring reality and chains of real life. It allows me an interdimentional freedom with endless possibilities, and most importantly it helps me cope with our chaotic world

Same for me Stan, as well as just wallowing in sheer appriciation of linguisitc brilliance and feats of metaphor, similie, and analogy. I also fall into relataing books with my current circumstances, I read and start connecting strange events and ideas togther. Reading brings me unity.

[subterranean]

yeah i end up writing poems on napkins with borrowed dull pencils, its quite an accomplishment to get home later and try to understand it, do that when im at some social gathering

Did u often got those strange looks from people around..? Some people would stared at me and perhaps considered me as a truly geek :eek: ..
But personally there's nothing worst than a boring party that you have to attend for the sake of trying to look like a very sociable person.

[subterranean]

I read to escape the boring reality and chains of real life. It allows me an interdimentional freedom with endless possibilities, and most importantly it helps me cope with our chaotic world

the boring reality and chains of life..? how come with all these potential threads to be hijack ;)?

[Jester]

well i usually sit next to the geeeks (sorry kushi but at least ill admit i am one too) so we'll all be using one pen and passing it around.... but yeah the tables next to us loved to give us wierd looks, soem poeple would come up and be like, what the hell ar eyou doing.... ?

most of the time at poetry readings i get very inspired... :eek2:

[subterranean]

well i usually sit next to the geeeks (sorry kushi but at least ill admit i am one too) so we'll all be using one pen and passing it around....

birds with the same feathers are indeed flock together ;)

[Kiwi Shelf]

I like reading because once I tune into a pages, I am gone. It takes quite elaborate actions to get me to pay attention to the real world. I also liked it because I could go away and be by myself even with a crowd of people.

[Jester]

the only book i have ever read where the whole world disappears and i seem to be entranced in it, (i usually disappear in books but not this intensity it left everything behind) was fugitive peices written by a poet about another poet who was a holocaust survivor... it was an amazing peice of literature