I love this article over at the Gospel Coalition: 5 Reasons You Need Fiction You really do! I know I do. It ties in a lot with this observation from the English novelist Penelope Lively:
"What we have read makes us what we are - quite as much as what we have experienced and where we have been and who we have known. To read is to experience."
Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish, p.161.
