Dan

“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

“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

“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
― Georges Simenon