beth_shulman | Geraldine McCaughrean

Books aren't nutritious. Like vitamins or roughage. No one will die of not reading another story. Storybooks are not spinach! After all, what can fiction actually do? Only dye your thoughts a different color, hang your skull with tapestries, take you time-traveling to the curtain walls of the universe; question your conscience; blast the window-shutters off your soul and let in the sunshine.