Ritwick Kumar

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Man is the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that told itself stories to understand what kind of creature it was. The story was his birthright, and nobody could take it away.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“For what was a book if not a long consecutive surrender to the movements of another’s soul?”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet

“Ideas, written ideas, are special. They are the way we transmit our stories and our ideas from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human. And fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction