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'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.

— Jane Smiley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

— Ruth Rendell

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

— Ned Beauman

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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 if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

— Tom Stoppard

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

— Edith Wharton

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

— Pat Barker

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.

— Eleanor Catton

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

— Wilfred Owen

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

— Cassandra Clare

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

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