Dan

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.”
― Henry Miller

“When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“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

“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.”
― William Golding