I always preferred reading to playing sports. I'm not a bulky guy. How about you?
I love to read! Especially novels, which are typically long works of narrative fiction. Do you have a favorite author?
To be honest, it varies with age. A few years ago I would have said J.K. Rowling, Brian Jacques, or Jules Verne. Now it's Stephen King, James Patterson, or similar.
All great choices! I think Walter Scott summed up novels the best when he said of novels, "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society." Very different from poems.
Oh, that's deep. I like it! And, yes, it's very attuned to the personality of the reader. After all, imagination is simply the inner reflections of your fantasies
author of "Don Quixote" (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. Ian Watt, in "The Rise of the Novel" (1957), suggested that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.
Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance,
—there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky." Critics questioned whether younger "Harry Potter" fans might be drawn into wanting to read the book, Rowling responded saying, "There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children's babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely honest. I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to