6) Because you come to self realizations about yourself that you would have not been able to come to had they not been pointed out to you in the form of words.
8) Merely reading a word reflecting a color or a scent immediately fires up the corresponding section of the brain, which empathizes with written experiences as if they actually happened to the audience.
9) Those who read tend to have a more varied range of words to express how they feel and to get their point across. - See more at: http://whytoread.com/why-to-read-10-reasons-why-reading-books-will-save-your-life/#sthash.lxUCePTU.dpuf