From On Being on NPR, Sunday, 29Sep (also on onbeing.org 26Sep)

Ms. Tippett:

And that is, for each and every one of us, interior work as much as it is work that we do in concert and in conversation and in shared life.Ms. Perry:That’s right. And it’s why — I love all forms of art, but there’s something very special about reading, because you are entering into a world with other human beings, but it’s very interior. There’s something very intimate about it, and so there’s this — it’s why I’m a writer. There’s a possibility to get to that.

To engage is another reason why we must read and fight for freedom of expression.