Most people do.
In fact, most readers of fiction and poetry believe that imaginative and emotional experiences are the main pleasures offered by literature. Italo Calvino believes that imagery is central to the experience of literature, but William Gass claims that vivid imaging prevents readers from enjoying the more complex pleasures of language. Emotion, too, has often been a central concern of poets and novelists, but literary theory has often ignored the feelings in its quest for an account of interpretation. Except for the controversial claims of psychoanalytic criticism, critical theory has had surprisingly little to say about the dynamics of emotion in literature and culture. In recent years, however, some critical theorists have begun looking to other disciplines for approaches that might fill these theoretical gaps.