"Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it's a gateway ... to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it's hard, because someone's in trouble and you have to know how it's all going to end … that's a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you're on the road to reading everything. And reading is key."
Neil Gaiman. 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming
Neil Gaiman. 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming