A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton – Novel
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
Borges – Novel
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
salman Rushdie – Language, Novel
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera – Human Existence
What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential.
Milan Kundera – Novel
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
