I think we all do. I knew it when I first read the Great Gatsby. I know it when I read the pleading of Jim Carroll. I can feel it when I pour over the lines of Shakespeare. Mark Twain and Huck Finn recognize something in me that my aging had long forgotten in the endless sunshine of childhood.
Good writing makes the impersonal page become a secret and old best friend.
Writing, when it is good, is somebody's soul. I don't think it's wrong to partake in their energy. It makes us whole. It makes us human. I know good writing when I see it.