Books Quote by Margaret Oliphant

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess!…

— Ellen Potter

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

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

— Hallie Ephron

The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years,…

— Terry Teachout

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 about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.

— Greg Sestero

“If you think reading is boring, your doing it wrong.”

— Anonymous

“Happiness is.. reading a novel with your Bestie.”

— Vikrmn

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

— Sydney Pollack