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A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. — Sir Harry Lauder

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. — Alison Pill

Good travel books are novels at heart. — Jonathan Raban

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. — Rita Mae Brown

If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does. — Amy Lane

Have some carrots. They're good for your eyes."
"Then you have some fries. They're good for your ... I don't know. They're just good. — Sarah Ockler

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. — Josephus Daniels

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults. — Justine Larbalestier

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. — Laura Vandervoort

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to. — Kurt Vonnegut

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers. — Christian Simamora

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo

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

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. — Elizabeth McCracken

Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that. — John Hopkins

Why did you leave my hand? I've never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought. — Sara Naveed

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn. — Lydia Davis

Teaching an adolescent pixy and teenage gargoyle how to make explosives might not be such a good idea. But hell, he'd learned when he was five. — Kim Harrison

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women. — Colm Toibin

If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick... — Barry James Hickey

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away. — Anne Tyler

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. — George R R Martin

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. — Maj Sjowall

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

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

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body. — Steven J. Daniels

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club. — Mark Billingham

He's an odd duck
but he's a good kid, with a good heart. — Lisa Scottoline

Vayoo ansha."
I shook my head and whispered, "Never. For good and always, you have lost me. Na me lapay kah
Lahn. Not anymore."** — Kristen Ashley

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large. — Clyde Edgerton

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good. — Lida Sideris

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! — Michael Crichton

She didn't deserve me. She deserved a hell of a lot better than me, but so help me, I wasn't good enough of a man to just let her go. — Nicole R. Locker

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything. — Charles Caleb Colton

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. — Nina Bawden

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson

I could practically hear the unspoken 'good girl' accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet. — Melissa Aragon

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line — Priyansh Shah

Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo... — Kim Harrison

She had an exciting job, several good friends, her cat, her peanut M&Ms, the mystery novels she was forever reading, and - well, me. — Tom Savage

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read

A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

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