Why Everyone Should Read Novels
Being a writer in making, with
many of my poems and stories published in different anthologies and because I
am almost ready with a novel to come, I am explaining today what I always felt
about the habit of reading. I believe that reading habits make a man what he
becomes as a person. As the study of psychology also tells us that we are what
we eat and we are what we read. The act of reading novels has a glorious
history, leading to revolutions in the world. The importance of novels in our
lives is much, much more than any common non-reading person thinks. Here, I am
iterating some points, which I feel stands perfectly true, about why we all
should read novels.
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- BECAUSE IT WAS YOUR FIRST LOVE
Well, this isn’t a reason for
ones who do not remember reading any comic books or young-adult serialised novelettes
in childhood. However, every kid reads some comic books or child magazines like
Champak, Tinkle, Chacha Chowdhary or the storybooks like Goosebumps or Hardy
Boys. The fact is that most kids, when they start reading comic books or
novellas, they make it their life—at least for the time being. We can hardly find
any decent adult person who will tell us that he never fell in love with
stories in his childhood. And this is the reason that you should read novels
even after growing up. Reading novels can make you have same positive energy as
you had as a child, reading stories of Panchatantra, or Aliflaila.
- TO REFRESH YOUR MIND AND SOUL
Away from the chaos of our
daily life and the hell that topics of work and politics keep giving us, novels
take us in their soothing lap to ease our minds. Novels take us away to a
different world, even if the theme is the same as what we see in our day to day
life. It tells us a story which gives us the feeling that we are not alone in
the world to have so many problems in life.
- BECAUSE IT WIDENS YOUR VISTA
Novels make us familiar with
cultures which are not our own, with people who are not our type in the sense
of dressing, eating or following the types of norms, with incidents which we
cannot imagine to be possible, and with a world which can exist, but we have not
seen. Reading novels makes us humbler as well. It makes our views tolerant
towards others, as we come to start seeing the world through many different
angles—accepting differences as the sole feature of the people of this world.
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- BECAUSE IT IS A ‘LUCKY’ ADDICTION
Yeah, I tell the people like
me, who read novels a lot, that they have got a lucky addiction. Addiction is
never always bad—though most of the times they are. Addiction can be of many
types, and so, if one has got addicted to reading, then there is no better
scenario he can expect in his life. A person who gets addicted to reading
novels – in most cases, those who start reading become addicted as well –
should feel lucky that his part of self which needs addiction is getting satisfied
through reading most of the times, and he is not having addictions of drugs or
any negative thing. You’ll be proud of yourself.
- BECAUSE IT IS THE PERFECT FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT
As the king of horror literature,
Stephen King says, “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no
batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why
everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
And the fact is that, most
best-selling novels come under the price of a pizza. Grabbing a good book to
read is the best thing you can do today, apart from washing your socks which
you might not have washed for a week. Books are indeed the perfect
entertainment, and therefore it is the best thing you can take up for spending
free time with.
After reading this short
article about why you should sink yourself in reading, if you still are not
convinced that you should read novels (if you already are addicted to reading,
I hug you), then you just keep aside these points that I have written above and
simply take up a novel by Stephen King, or Dan Brown, or Khaled Hosseini and
read it cover to cover. You will understand what I am trying to make you
understand. If you love to write, then you already know the importance of
reading, as again Stephen King says, “If you don't have time to read, you don't
have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” If you are a budding writer,
you should return to this article, your name in paperback for the first time.
Have a nice day.
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4 comments:
You stake our thoughts at the auction of pen.
Keep it up.
Thank you, brother.
Well said!
Yeah. Thank you.
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