Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.
A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.