What is reading and writing for me?

Reading is like entering new worlds; like moving through time and space without leaving the chair one is sitting on.

Turning the pages of a book is having a glimpse of the lives of other people, who may not be real, but who come to life specially for the reader. One feels what they feel, one pities them or admires them, one wishes them well or bad as their stories unfold before our eyes.

Letting ourselves go into the written words is submerging in a different infinite realm, it is a further helping of existence.

Reading opens our eyes to other lives and other worlds; and these lives and worlds certainly enrich our own.

But sometimes we are the ones who wish to create those lives and those worlds, and that is why we write. On occasions our minds resemble a whirlpool, bubbling with ideas, and through writing we let those ideas live.

Nothing will let us express ourselves so freely as a blank page. It does not matter whether we master the skill or we find it challenging and need to put a great effort on it; still the blank page is an invitation. Anyone and everyone has the possibility of hearing the calling: "Come on! These are your thoughts, your emotions, your feelings. This is your imagination, this is your knowledge, this is your creativity. Be brave, and dare to create!"