Title: Why do people read novels? - Quora
Headings: Why do people read novels?
Why do people read novels?
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Content: Getting to know new things or looking at the old ones with a different light intrigues me the most and I delve into the emotions that the characters gen
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Well answer this, why do children like listening to stories? what do they do while someone is reading to them? They imagine, they get transported into the story where they imagine all the characters and scenes and that is what keeps them glued to the story, they go through various emotions along the course of it and even think of some things they would have not thought of before. This is similar to what we do when we read a book ( at least I do). Getting to know new things or looking at the old ones with a different light intrigues me the most and I delve into the emotions that the characters generally go through, I even have the habit of trying to interpret what would happen next and all this keeps me attached to whatever book I'm reading. Sometimes it has been that I have tried to keep a book away but couldn't before completing it. As I'm a writer myself its kind of fascinating to get to know about the ideas that go through other people’s mind, the topics that I have not thought of till now and how differently different people can perceive, interpret and explain the same thing. I even sometimes try to think about the procession of thoughts the author must have gone through to reach here and what lead to the completion of this book in this certain way (though this is something unusual I know). I imagine the whole scenes in my mind and luckily remember them exactly everytime I think about that book, this is something that i really enjoy and I even used to do it with the small stories that used to be in my school readers. All in all it is a mind refreshing habit I'm stuck with since I was 9;