Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is 	astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered 	before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a 	train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, 	painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls 	up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
Ben Okri, A Way of Being Free
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