Dan

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up

“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”
― Martin Amis

“I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.”
― Honore de Balzac

“In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa