The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about…

I did the first Parker novel, in which he got caught, and the editor at Pocket Books took me to lunch and said, 'Is…

— Donald E. Westlake

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

— Hallie Ephron

The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for…

— Michael Helm

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

— John Herschel

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a…

— Chris Cleave

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some…

— Simone Weil

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

— Mike Gorman

“Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

— Allen Carr

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it…

— Mark Twain

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at…

— Sam Ervin

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

— Bill Moyers