“All good books are alike in that they
are truer than if they really happened
and after you are finished reading one
you will feel that it all happened to you
and afterwards it all belongs to you:
the good and the bad, the ecstasy,
the remorse and sorrow,
the people and the places and
how the weather was.
If you can get so that you can give that
to people, then you are a writer.”

– Ernest Hemingway