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21/11/2021

And the second thing that fiction does is that it generates empathy. When you watch a TV show or a movie, you are looking at things that are happening to other people. Fiction is something you make of 33 letters and a handful of punctuation, and you, alone, use your imagination to create the world that inhabits it and look around with other people's eyes. You begin to experience things, to visit places and worlds that you would never know. You will learn that the outside world is you too. You become someone else, and when you return to your world, something in you will change a little.

21/11/2021

There are no bad authors for children if children want to read them and look for their books because all children are different. They find the stories they need, and they go inside those stories. The beaten, shabby idea is fascinating for them. After all, a child discovers it for the first time. Do not distract children from reading just because you think they are reading the wrong things. Literature that you don't like is the path to books that you may like. And not everyone has the same taste as you.

21/11/2021

The easiest way to raise literate children is to teach them to read and show that reading is fun. The easiest way is to find the books they like, give them access and let them read.

21/11/2021

In fiction there are two purposes:

First, it makes you addicted to reading. The desire to know what will happen next, the desire to turn the page, the need to continue, even if it is difficult, because someone got into trouble, and you have to find out how it will end… this is a real drive. It makes you learn new words, think differently, keep moving forward. Discovering that reading in itself is a pleasure. Once you realize this, you are on the path to constant reading.

21/11/2021

There is no direct dependence on this, it is impossible to say that there is no crime in the formed society. But the relationship between the factors is clear.
I think the simplest of these connections come from the obvious.

18/11/2021

I was in New York once and heard a conversation about building private prisons, a fast-growing industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan for its future growth - how many cameras will they need? What will be the number of prisoners in 15 years? And they found that they could predict all this very easily, using the simplest algorithm based on surveys, which a percentage of 10 and 11-year-olds could not read. And, of course, can't read for pleasure.

18/11/2021

Undoubtedly, it is in my interest for people to read, for people to read fiction, for libraries and librarians to exist and to promote a love of reading and the existence of places where you can read. So I'm biased as a writer. But I am much more biased as a reader.

18/11/2021

And I'm obviously very biased, because I'm a writer, an author of literary texts. I write for both children and adults. For about 30 years now, I've been making a living from words, mostly creating things and writing them down.

18/11/2021

It is important to explain to people whose side they are on and why, as well as people who are biased. A kind of declaration of interests. So, I'm going to talk to you about reading. That reading fiction, reading for fun is one of the most important things in a person's life.

18/11/2021

If you have math friends who ask you why read fiction, give them this text. If you have friends who convince you that all books will soon be electronic, give them this text. If you remember with warmth (or vice versa with horror) trips to the library, read this text. If you have growing children, read this text with them, and if you are just thinking about what and how to read with children, especially read this text.