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You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end. — Chloe Thurlow

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

Good science fiction has its roots in good science. — Dan Brown

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

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. — David Foster Wallace

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget. — Lauren Hammond

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book. — Steve Earle

You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. — Jayce O'Neal

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

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read. — Katherine Paterson

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. — Kira Hawke

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. — Deana J. Driver

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

I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary. — Jason E. Hodges

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them. — Frederick Locker-Lampson

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. — Avijeet Das

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book? — Guy Kawasaki

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott

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

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

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

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. — Alex Pareene

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them. — Herman Wouk

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

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for. — Ron Brackin

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.' — Sara Shepard

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer. — Tarang Sinha

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. — Stephen King

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

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

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