"To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features..."

“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide– a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.”

- Rebecca Solnit