Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.
Gustave FlaubertEverything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave FlaubertI hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Gustave Flaubert