Is it possible to fall in love with a person you barely even know, and the only thing you did was read what that person wrote?
A purely theoretical question, of course.
I've been reading a book (yes, I'm procrastinating and I'm going to hate myself for it very soon) and it was a case of 2 persons who began corresponding through letters, not knowing who the other was.
It sounds normal, but the twists were good and I devoured the book in 4 hours.
Of course, design was left untended.
That's why I'm going to hate myself later.

I guess I can actually see that happening though. The world is such that people can be pretentious in the things they do, or what they say, if that was what they think you expect of them. I think writing on the other hand, requires the baring of a soul, in some way. If you didn't feel it, could you write it? I guess words and sentences to a writer is like what paint is to an artist. I've always felt an affinity with words because they tell me so much more about a person than a person would.
I've always thought it was weird that people would say reading is boring. Everyone listens to songs, don't they? Not instrumentals, but songs with lyrics. And what are lyrics if not words? Shorter, yes, but words all the same and they tell a story too.
If reading is boring, then I can only conclude that every song ever written must be boring too.
And don't say its because you like the melody. The melody is only a starter to the main course of lyrics.