It is not difficult to dream a life ...

The Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk is movingly modest and candid about his urge to write. In the essay “The Implied Author” (published in “Other Colours” ), he talks about his need to write as his daily fix to make it through the day.
“Literature does not allow a writer to pretend to save the world; rather, it gives him a chance to save [his] day”.

And then he recalls a critical theory speaking of an “implied reader” through whose reading the meaning of a novel truly emerges.
By analogy he muses that “for every unwritten but dreamed novel there must be an implied author. […]”. But since so many practical interruptions and earthly trivialities conspire every day to keep one from becoming the dreamed book’s author, he concludes:

“It is not difficult to dream a book. […] The difficult thing is to become your dream book’s implied author”

Now for any pensive reader this begs of course the variation:

“It is not difficult to dream a life. […] The difficult thing is to become your dreamed life’s implied author”