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is a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history. Joseph Conrad

is a fiction and therefore it tells lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. Paul Auster

is a genre that has not always existed in the past and need not exist in the future. Benjamin argues that we need to decide where our literary emphasis will be placed... in rhetoric' In journalism'.

There have not always been novels in the past, they do not always have to exist in the future... there have not always been tragedies, not always great epics. Commentaries, translations, even so-called forgeries have not always been divertissements on the borders of literature: they have had their place not only in philosophical literature, but in the poetic literatures of Arabia or China. Rhetoric has not always been an insignificant form. (Benjamin 'author as producer' 2)

is a machine for generating interpretations.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. Umberto Eco

is a machine for generating interpretations. If the narrator is supplying the interpretations, then it is not a novel.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work... otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. Umberto Eco

a novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road. (Stendhal)

is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

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