While wind and rain continue, I'm still thinking about my mother with gratitude and love, remembering that she instilled in me her love of books and art.
Here's Kurt Vonnegut talking about novels:
"I’ve said that to open a novel is to arrive in a music hall and be handed a viola. You have to perform. [Laughs.]
To stare at horizontal lines of phonetic symbols and Arabic numbers and to be able to put a show on in your head, it requires the reader to perform. If you can do it, you can go whaling in the South Pacific with Herman Melville, or you can watch Madame Bovary make a mess of her life in Paris..."
I found the quote here.
