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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. — Roland Barthes

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. — K. Lamb

Axel smiled. "They say that good judgment comes from experience. And experience come from bad judgment." Alec laughed... — Ward Just

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost. — Hope Mirrlees

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope. — Susan Griffin

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre. — Vanna Bonta

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon

What good literature can do and does do - far greater than any importation of morality - is touch the human soul. — Karen Swallow Prior

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick. — Charles Lamb

I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me — Sappho Van Lesbos

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 — William Shakespeare

To be a good writer, become a good listener. — Cynthia Briggs

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike — David Foster Wallace

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

It was a good day to die, but nobody did. — Stephen Graham Jones

The Christian publishing world has embraced the safe over the good — J. Mark Bertrand

People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas. — Colette

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature? — Elif Shafak

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly. — Mark Frost

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

Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even works written in non-Western languages. — Minae Mizumura

A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside; an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

A good story will always outlive the truth. — Marty Rubin

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written. — George Saintsbury

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? — Julio Cortazar

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good. — Pliny

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral. — Mason Cooley

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development. — Lev S. Vygotsky

When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with. — Celine Kiernan

To write good poems is the secret of brevity. — Dejan Stojanovic

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence. — Simone Weil

Good is not always good. — Dejan Stojanovic

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."
-Tock — Norton Juster

If you are good, they say you are weak. — Dejan Stojanovic

Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there. — Janaki Sooriyarachchi

It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children. — Heidi Schulz

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? — Rex Stout

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne

Dualism ... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life. — Aldous Huxley

What will you prefer if you have new king or the king of good times. — Institute For Translation Of Hebrew Literature

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. — Stephen R. Covey

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact. — Fernando Pessoa

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? — Idries Shah

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. — Dejan Stojanovic

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament. — F.F. Bruce

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. — Hillel F. Damron

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology. — Thomas Moore

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. — Italo Calvino

All good Literature rests primarily on insight. — George Henry Lewes

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. — Ethel Turner

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. — Dejan Stojanovic

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

It is no easy task to be good. — Aristotle.

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. — George Lucas

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way. — Margaret Atwood

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. — Madame De Stael

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech) — Napoleon Bonaparte

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. — Dejan Stojanovic

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. — Pamela Dean

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! — 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

You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system. — G.A.P. Gutierrez

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance. — Osamu Dazai

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

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy ... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy