Reality is Ralph

From Lisey's Story by Stephen King:
~He didn't even plan his books, as complex as some of them were. Plotting them, he said, would take out all the fun. He claimed that for him, writing a book was like finding a brilliantly coloured string in the grass and following it to see where it might lead. Sometimes the string broke and left you with nothing. But sometimes-- if you were lucky, if you were brave, if you perservered-- it brought you to a treasure. And the treasure was never the money you got for the book; the treasure was the book.~