Book Quote by Stephen Dobyns

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

— Ned Beauman

Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford…

— Tom Stoppard

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated…

— Jane Smiley

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always…

— Matthew Specktor

“They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone’s pick to be the top…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She…

— Peter Capaldi

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself…

— Lawrence Block

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a…

— Ann Widdecombe

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

— David Quammen

“Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every…

— Ellen Hopkins