Barbara Kingsolver’s Quote

Literature Duplicates the Experience of Living in a Way that Nothing Else Can

                                                                                                     by: puspamerah

Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8 1955. She is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. I found an interesting fact about her. The first year she studied at DePauw University on music scholarship, she studying “classical piano.” But then she realized that “Classical pianists compete for 6 job opening in a year, and the rest of them just playing piano at the hotel lobby.” Realizing the fact made her took a decision to change the major to Biology. After that, she worked as a freelance writer before began writing some novels. And now, she is a famous writer. The two widely well-known works from her are Poisonwood Bible a tale of missionary family in Congo and a non-fiction book entitled Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which is about her family’s attempts to eat locally.

Her work often focuses on topics such as: social justice, biodiversity, feminism, and the interaction between humans, their communities, and environments. Besides that, she has some great quotes, and one of them is “Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you into another world that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That’s why you read it, and you might sit up in bed till dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people, who – you know perfectly well – are made up.”

I think that is the most logical reason for those who love book, for people who love reading, and for every single brain that spend their last time in late evening enjoying books. That is the reality why we read our favorite books or novels for hours until we stay up late at night. It seems like when I read Sherlock Holmes. I’ll spend my whole day reading that book then I’ll daydream about Holmes and his criminal cases in Scotland Yard, till at night I’ll dream about Holmes getting fight with Professor Moriarty and Jack the Ripper. That is how book bombs our mind, but we don’t mind about that right?

Barbara Kingsolver’s quote is also tells that literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can; drawing us into another world that temporarily we forget we have one of our own. That is right. Why people love reading is because they curious about what actually the book tells about. And sometimes we don’t realize that the book’s story is also about life, about our life too, though it is a non-fiction or fiction one. You may say that it is writer’s imagination. But we have to notice that their imagination is also based on their experience and their true story, then they compile that in such of formula which can make us hypnotized reading it pages by pages.

All in all, from that quote we can realize how book is mesmerized us. We also find that there is no reason for people to hate book or literature. But we find a thousand of reasons why we love our books.