To all the writers that ever existed
This letter is to all the authors, all the "word magicians", all the story weavers who ever endeavored and succeeded in coloring the rest of the world's imagination with their fantasies. Thank you.
Though to most it will be a posthumous token of gratitude, I take this "better late than never" opportunity to thank all of you who made me want to stay up at night rebelling curfew with a torch, a book that painted my dreams and an itchy blanket on a stifling summer night.
Credits to you all, dear madams and sirs, I would never shirk from accepting what less literate minds find impossible and creating fantastical scenarios with my mind's eye and admitting them. Be it toys that come alive at twilight, the screech of a magical car flying in the night sky or even the possibility of completely different dimensional halfling creatures, nothing will be too alien for me.
Be it attempting to make Holmes-like deductions (unfortunately always failing) or the maniacal laughter of the Mad Hatter and his tea mates, I have enjoyed them all.
It all began with a seemingly innocent book of Gulliver's Travels that opened up a million worlds, progressing with the journeys I shared with the Adventurous Four, Secret Seven and Famous Five. I snooped along with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and once in a while Christie's heroes. Conan-Doyle took crime solving to a brand new cerebral level. From the Treasure Island to the deserts of The Alchemist its been one helluva fun-filled ride.
No amount of gratitude can compare to the beautiful childhood and teenage years filled with little blossoms of imagination. Whenever dejection and desperation hit closer home nothing was more peaceful than the peaceful familiar brown pages of a book old and new alike. The temporary escape was worth dealing the mess a bit later.
L.M.Montgomery, Conan-Doyle, Dickens, Austen, Bronte, Dan Brown, Nora Roberts, Twain, Harper Lee, Rowling, Lewis, Coelho, Blyton, Keene, Coelho and countless others have invariably shaped my life.
This has resulted in me being a reader for life and I have nothing to regret!
Again Merci.
