Fiction Writers Draw Readers

It's a great triumph in the English-speaking world, that is novel writing and reading, a hobby requiring all of our attention, and the National Endowment for the Arts recently provided results for the press and public in the form of statistics regarding what comes after literacy, an after-math of great books by our nation's best, that is our terrific fiction writers.

Our reading and writing market is so attractive that, in fact, some writers have come from the European literate to the United States for some of our greatest author and writing workshop conventions. Some have chosen the U.S. for it's publishing opportunities, a business that has spread it's arms of employment for many kinds of people with a vast variety of backgrounds. And it may be because of this and our increased communication resources that the overall percentages of people who are reading in the United States, citing the population over the age of 18, has risen noticeably.

Literary fiction works have offered tremendous impact on the way people think and behave and you're just not part of the awareness generation unless you've read good books. This can include novels, collections of short stories, poems, and plays. Reading arouses curiosity in people, it makes them wonder and react, and importantly believe and hope for great things. It wasn't just the politicians and voters that helped get our president-elect Barack Obama into office, it was many years of conscientious writing by just people offering distinct information about the evils of bias in society, including human rights issues, racial, marital issues, employability and the too few years ago documentations of child labor; or in other words, we have drawn accounts of our history also from fractions of fictional stories. Important fiction writers have prompted men's and women's imaginations, judgement and accountability, and for this we can give our literary masterpieces credit when due.

According to the statistics submitted by the National Endowment for the Arts, bookstore and Internet sales, and library associations, the amount of people who read literature among women is at an all-time high of 58% and risen to 41% amoung men. In 1982 our overall over age of 18 readership was at 56.9%; in 1992 the drop was to 54%; in 2002 dropping further to 46.7% for literary reading; but in 2008 the collective tally of readers in the U.S. rose to 50.2%.

As a constructive and informative trend, let's hope for the best and let reading, an awareness trend continue.