Books Quote by Albert Camus

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

— Jim Rohn

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

— Will Hobbs

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

— John Lanchester

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

— Thomas Hardy

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the…

— Milan Kundera

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

— Robert Penn Warren

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of…

— Doris Lessing

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..

— Ken Follett

“A novel, or a book on philosophy, is going to use both sides of the brain: not only will you have feelings about what…

— Philippa Perry