Theme
1:55pm August 21, 2014

“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”

— 

“Why fiction is good for you” in The Boston Globe (via aaknopf)

see also: why it’s never just a book/tv show/movie

representation matters

(via dearjimmoriarty)

This is one reason I want to do NaNoWriMo and actually write something specific as fiction.  Because I don’t think writing essays about the topic works as well for getting across what I want to get across.

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