5 Reasons Everyone Should Read Novels

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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