" This safety from harm might cause the imaginative experience of reading a book to be judged inferior to real experience. But that is not the case. Making contact with memes, in the forms of books or movies or other media, provides knowledge and wisdom necessary for going out into the real world; they are legitimate experiences all the same. "

― Hideo Kojima , The Creative Gene: How books, movies, and music inspired the creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid