why do you read?

Answer 1

I read to experience other cultures, realities, modes of thinking and being that are alien to my own. It challenges my imagination to enter unknown worlds, conflicted psyches and ways of living that are beyond my own experience. I read for knowledge that encourages critical and abstract thinking, that benefits the world I inhabit and am responsible for now. I read to grow as a person; to incorporate new ideas that improve my own life and those around me. Reading is after all the last innocent voyeuristic pleasure that is still legally and morally ethical. Lastly, I read because its cheaper than a trip around the world unless you go to Barnes and Nobles to make a purchase.

Answer 2

i read because i love being in a different world! reading gets me away from reality. i put myself in the books i read also, that might have something to do with it. whether i do it consciencly or unconsciencely, i always imagine myself as one of the characters. no matter what anyone says, on some level they love to read. to most people it IS and escape from reality, and some people need to get away sometimes.

if any of you have ever read Awake and Dreaming you could relate that to this. the little girl had a hard life and she used books to escape.

that is why i read. i read to get into that world and usually i don't want to come back out.

Answer 3

I read because it takes me away from my life, takes me somewhere I couldn't even begin to dream about. I read because, for a few hours at least, I don't have to exist in this world. I read because it fills the emptiness space inside me. Wow, I sound depressing lol. But its true. I read because it makes me happy.

Answer 4

I read because I enjoy reading. It is my escape from reality. I get to go to other places, meet people and do things that I normally would not.

Answer 5

I grew up with books; my mother loved them. I'm sure that had a lot to do with it. But really I think it comes from inside me. I love stories. I love words. Words are one of the most powerful things we have at our disposal. With them we change people, create ideas, communicate, let people live on... Reading is the result. Pure magic. How could you not?

Answer 6

I read for fun.

The Thief, Queen of Attolia, and King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner Are AWESOME! King of Attolia is particularly AWESOME!!
They are Very well written.

P.S. You really should read them in the order I listed them.

Answer 7

i find that reading allows me to move into another alternate universe where i can immerse myself in a character and then re-join culture and live life.

Answer 8

One of the reasons is that I read to be a full man, in other words, I read to fulfil my thirst for knowledge, facts, information, literary appreciation, practical values, etc. to live and work in this changing world.

This famous essay is for you, there is somewhere mentioning reading, conference and writing. Enjoy!

Sir Francis Bacon: Essays of Francis Bacon
50. Of Studies
STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study 197 the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.

Answer 9

i read because it gets me away from reality for a while. its fun becuase you can imagine yourself as some one else for a couple of hours

Answer 10

i read because it gets me away from my family and my life. it also helps my imaganation build and i love how i can simply enter a book and be someone else.