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Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access. — Scott Turow

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work — Larry Brown

There is bad in all good authors — Philip Larkin

One man is as good as another until he has written a book. — Benjamin Jowett

Sometimes good people do bad things. — Andrew Gilmore

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. — Julien Green

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them. — Jeanne Calment

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree ... they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy. — Bobbi Romans

To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton

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

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. — Augusten Burroughs

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies. — Jane Birkin

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

Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism. — Maggie Young

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. — George Dennison Prentice

To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. — M.F. Moonzajer

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. — Nicolas Chamfort

I would desire to have no other prison than a library, and to be chained together with as many good authors. — Robert Burton

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

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. — E. Nesbit

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. — Richard K. Morgan

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider. — Christopher Rice

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes. — Cole Porter

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. — Elinor Florence

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

Behind every drama is a good story ... behind every tear is the person who wrote it. — Faye Hall

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin

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

Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days. — Julie Wright

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life. — Herve Le Tellier

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. — Benjamin Disraeli

He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that. — Walter Moers