Why I am SO passionate about books and helping authors!
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Why I am SO passionate about books and helping authors!
It is because we are not our bodies, but rather we are our minds.
You get close to a person not by being in physical proximity to that person's body. Rather, you get close to a person through mental connection.
That is the beauty of reading books. Ask yourself, what connects you more to a person than reading their carefully crafted book?
That is why I am so passionate about helping artists market their art, especially in terms of helping great up-and-coming authors promote their great books.
When an author writes a great book, I believe they bleed their soul into it. To read these amazing books is hypnotizing. It's as if you enter the author's mind and see their imagination first-hand as if you are them.
It's such a beautiful art.
What do you think? Why are you passionate about books and reading?
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Well-said - art as horcux.kandscreeley wrote:I think it is that way with all the arts. I personally have a music degree (not that I'm using it.) However, I think musicians, artists, writers all put a little bit of themselves into their works. It's how we express ourselves. I've often felt that artists of all types feel things more deeply than others. They have to, or how else would they be able to express the feelings to others. Hope that makes sense.
The word feels so inadequate but art moves me. It can be a beautiful turn of phrase in a poem, allegorical painting that makes me think, or melancholy music that makes me nostalgic.
I was passionate about reading enough to get a degree in English literature. I have started being some sort of a reading activist recently; people are reading less and less, social media doesn't count.
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As an author whose debut comes out later this summer, I can tell you it’s SCARY to be so vulnerable, to be “in the arena” as Brene Brown reminds us.
And, it is an honor to be witnessed, to be seen by people who connect to our work.
Thank you to all the readers and writers for keeping the practice alive.
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