TITLE: The work of Thurston
QUESTION [12 upvotes]: I seem to remember written or said somewhere that at some point Thurston decided to stop writing down his theorems in order not to repel mathematicians from his field (maybe this is not correct?). I am really curious if now 25-30 years later there is some nice source, book, or notes, where it is possible to learn some basic ideas about the proof of the fact that Haken manifolds admit a hyperbolic structure? Maybe some of his ideas got a more accessible explanation? Of course his beautiful notes http://www.msri.org/publications/books/gt3m/ exist, but they don't go so far.

REPLY [13 votes]: This isn't a direct answer to the actual question, but in your first sentence I think you're alluding to Thurston's article  On proof and progress in mathematics.  In section 6, entitled "Some personal experiences", he describes how his experience working on foliations influenced the way he presented his later work on geometrization.