Quotables: On Reading by Susan Ban Breathnach

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Many writers will tell you they write to create a cosmos in which they can cozily cohabit with themselves.

Of course, we read for the same reason.

To find refuge, a soul shelter, a safe place in a world clearly gone mad.

We read for pleasure or we read to quiet the pain from a deafening roar to a dull throb.

We read to forget who we are or discover it;

we read to understand.

But most of all, we do read 

to learn something we didn't know

before we turned the page.

- Susan Ban Breathnach