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Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. — Anne Lamott

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that. — Neil Gaiman

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca The Younger

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart! — Saru Singhal

A good way to never run out of ideas? Surround yourself with interesting people, then think about how you can make them into characters. — B.A. Gabrielle

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well. — B.A. Gabrielle

Who learns most from a good book is the author. — Jose Bergamin

With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered. — E.R. Pierce

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of. — Umberto Eco

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things. — Candace Bushnell

Be good, or good at it. — Belo Miguel Cipriani

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein — Mark Rubinstein

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. — Victor J. Banis

Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too.
Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam — Stephanie Skeem

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away. — B.A. Gabrielle

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good. — S.A. Tawks

Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us forever. — Andrew M. Ferrell

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. — S.A. Tawks

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. — W. Somerset Maugham

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author. — Kathryn Harrison

In a successful launch, the author believes that buying their book is actually a good thing for people to do. — Tim Grahl

Having a bunch of friends who are rats can actually be a good thing. That's the one fact that I can take to the bank, literally. — Michael Houbrick

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better. — Alan Dapre

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast — Rachel Caine

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. — Cyril Connolly

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?! — Martha Sweeney

The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals. — S.A. Tawks

A good author can pull you into their world, a great author can make you stay. — Tauicita Jones

Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky. — Britt Holewinski

Take what is good from the past
and carve a new path. — Jan Porter

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories. — Daniel Keys Moran

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. — Carl Hiaasen

Is often a good career move for an author. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb. — John Milton

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better. — Charles Spurgeon

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you," and then treat them that way? (author unknown) — Antonio F. Vianna

Don't try to make life fair, instead, be on the side where life is extra good. — Sarvesh Jain

You are the sole author of the story of your life, my dear. Make it a good one. — Danielle Ganek

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart. — Uri Shulevitz

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision. — John Gaddis

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean De La Bruyere

Good authors worry about genres great authors don't. — Frank X. Gaspar

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. — Seneca.

On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special. — Sheeja Jose

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience ... — Joseph Joubert

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! — Tony Campolo

As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction. — Stephen Richards

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

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. — Gore Vidal

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ... — Pope Leo XIII

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. — Tatyana Tolstaya

Being a good author is more important than being a best-selling one. — Tarang Sinha

If you can't win with words then show them a good example! — Stephen Richards

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself. — James Dickey

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. — Aldous Huxley

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good. — James Monroe

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. — George Bernard Shaw

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way) — Pseudonymous Bosch

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov

A good Author is willing to read as much as she writes — Sarah Myria Carter

Always walk as if you're running late, it's healthier. — Benny Bellamacina

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. — Logan Pearsall Smith

A Teacher is no good without the student and the student is no good without the teacher. — Larry Earl Toombs

Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good. — Jean De La Fontaine

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain De Botton

A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there. — Ray Jay Perreault

Unlike in sailing, an even keel is no good when talking suspense. — Alan Orloff

Dead is always a good alibi — Spencer Kope

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too. — Lauren Myracle

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

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

The twisted thing about doing what you're good at is that you aren't really good at it until you do it over and over and over again. — Stephen Richards

~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~ — Darke Conteur

I shall never be ashamed to go to a bad author for a good quotation. — Seneca.

Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash. — Testy McTesterson

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up. — B.A. Gabrielle

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers. — Saru Singhal

Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it. — Michelle M. Pillow

And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable. — Armineonila M.

Being a writer is a good, good thing. — Shannon Hale

I am a commercial artist and author, who loves my family, a good joke, a sunny day, cheeseburgers, hockey and the Beatles. — Stooart