Books Quote by Neil Gaiman

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

— Donald Miller

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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

— Margaret Oliphant

There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read them had…

— Sandra Cisneros

“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom…

— Norman Mailer

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and…

— Mary Karr

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

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

— Hallie Ephron

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

— John Herschel