and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page;we begin to see images... We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we are sitting in... We recreate, with minor changes the vivid and continuous dream the writer worked out in his mind and captured in language so that other human beings, whenever they feel like it, may open his book and dream that dream again."
JOHN GARDNER
goodreads: On Becoming a Novelist
