I read 1000 books and learned This

Hey you, that is you right? 

A person? So You breathe right? And You read obviously. You feel and You think. And You are here, we might be a thousand miles away but we’re both here. That is what a book is, that’s what the internet is too. Because whoever You are, wherever You are, whatever time it is, we are here in the same place. 

I’ve read 1000 books in the last 20 years, and they’ve taught me one thing: When you write something down and someone else sees it, you are connected. They taught me a few other things too: how to love, how to fight, what people think and how they live; but together they teach something different. When You sit down in front of a blank paper, when You pick up the pen or put Your hands on the keyboard You are changing the world. 

“Never approach a blank page lightly.” Steven King

So what do we do? We world changers, we writers — well we bang our heads against brick walls, we delete and we paste, we exult and hide; more or less we write. And we write because there is a chance that someone one day might read our words and there’s a magic in that feeling. But we have changed the world, or else the world has changed us; people are making money with their words and we want a piece. We’ll fight for a piece if we have to, create clickbait and beg for attention — in short, we are trading in magic for money. It’s okay though. Sometimes money comes with magic and its okay. But for the sake of the blank page that stares us down in the mornings like a white sea of doom, let us not cover it in black ink for the sake of money. Read because you enjoy, write because you love, feel because you can; You are You, and we are together once again. 

“It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step into the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might get swept off to.” Our Beloved Bilbo