“Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.”

— Albert Camus

This may have arisen as a paraphrase of statements found in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), "An Absurd Reasoning", or one found in The Novelist as Philosopher: Studies in French Fiction 1935-1960 (1962) edited by John Cruikshank, p. 218
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French author and journalist 1913–1960

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