• [Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

    Mervyn Peake: [Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.
    Mervyn Peake (2011). “The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy”, Random House