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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
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
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
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
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 intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
— Phyllis A. Whitney
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
Being a writer is a good, good thing.
— Shannon Hale