Antithesis Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only…

— Charles Fort

“A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims…

— Milan Kundera

“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis than a…

— Louis Tobback

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I…

— Sergio Chejfec

“…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you;…

— Martin Amis

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when…

— Italo Calvino

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers