What is a Book
A book is a dream or memory. Like a dream, a book can be bad, good, (morally) sad, scary, etc.
Why do I call it a dream? Because, in one way or another it's coming from some ones thoughts and imagination. Some make the mistake of saying a dream is something that they want to have happened. But I believe a dream is just a person's thought pattern. How they think. What they think.
A book is a memory because lots of people have written about the experiences in their life they have had or possibly will have (foresight; I do not believe in this though). Memories can be bad, good, sad, or scary as well. But the most important thing is that a book is created not when it is printed inside of a 100 page stack of papers, but when the idea is inside some one's mind.
A book is not first written down, it must be thought of first of course, if it's created through a dream or memory, the book is created when you decide to pick up the pencil and start off your story. The first word that comes into your mind is the beginning of the book.
"A book is actually a place, a place where we, as readers, still have the chance to engage in active imagining..."
A book is a place, where we can have an imagination which in its own way, I believe, says that it's a dream. Because, in a way, a dream is also a place. A place you can go to think inside your head. A place where anything is possible.
To answer the question "What is a book?" blankly, I say that anything you write down is a book in its own form.
