“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain…”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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