“Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have lived hundreds or thousands of years ago. You can know what's like to be old if you're young or young if you're old. You can know what it's like to live in a completely different culture and really enter somebody else's mind. There's no amount of historical information that can give you access to the consciousness of a person from another culture or from the past in the way that reading really good novel from that place or time can.”
Quote by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a renowned British cultural historian known for her in-depth research into modern art, literature, and history. Born on December 7, 1951, she graduated from Oxford University and later became a researcher at University College London. Her works cover the art and literature from the late 19th to the 20th century, with a particular focus on the works of female writers. more