Reading

"Reading is thinking. It is not that we read and then think, but that we think something and read it in a book that seems written by us but that has not been written by us, but that someone in another country, in another place, in the past, has written it as a thought not yet thought, until by chance, always by chance, we discover the book where it is clearly expressed what had been, confusedly, not thought by us. A book for each of us. It takes, in order to find it, a series of events accidentally chained together so that in the end one sees the light that one is not knowingly looking for."

✍️ Ricardo Piglia ✍️

"You have to inject yourself every fantasy day so as not to die of reality."
✍️ Ray Bradbury✍️

It takes a lot of reading to endure so much fiction...

Reading has value, but there are limits to that value. You can't expect to turn into the next Michael Jordan by reading every book about basketball. You actually need to spend some time playing basketball.