MJD

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer