"Humans have a curious condition that makes them hold only one life, while at the same time they are given imagination and desire enough to long for a thousand lives.
A thousand lives, a far richer and intense experience than their real life. And they feel that void between reality and dream: desire. That void is filled by fiction, and the novel is its supreme form."
-2008 interview of Nobel prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian novelist, essayist, and diplomat)