Reading is a very active process. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard. Reading is still important to me; it’s fundamental, necessary and needed, so let’s endeavor to do our best to take some child in your midst and nurture him with a story; read for yourself for both knowledge and pleasure. READ – your life depends on it! Reading is like providing the mind with nourishment. Knowledge is the food for the mind and soul.
Reading is a necessarily solitary experience?like dying, everyone reads alone?but over the centuries readers have learned how to cultivate that solitude, how to grow it in the least hospitable environments. An experienced reader can lose herself in a good text with anything short of a war going on (and, sometimes, even then)?the horticultural equivalent of growing orchids in a desert. Reading is reading, even if it's done on a computer. Even if it's done on fanfiction.net. Reading is an essential part of learning at university. All courses in all faculties have components which involve reading.
