What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
– J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 3, talking about authors like Ring Lardner, Isak Dinesen and Thomas Hardy.