This quote came across my Instagram feed from @for_reading_addicts:
“In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.”
–Donna Tartt, in the 2013 Interview by Laurie Grassi for Chatelaine