Top 65 Quotes About Good Authors
#2. All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
H.P. Lovecraft
#4. Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
Julien Green
#5. I would desire to have no other prison than a library, and to be chained together with as many good authors.
Robert Burton
#6. An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
Herve Le Tellier
#7. There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
Jeanne Calment
#8. There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Philip Larkin
#10. Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
Cole Porter
#11. To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.
M.F. Moonzajer
#12. that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.
Robert Burton
#13. It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!
Martha Sweeney
#14. Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? ... If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.
George Bernard Shaw
#17. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
#18. The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: And behold, what he had done was good.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#19. 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
#20. I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.
Augusten Burroughs
#21. 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
#22. It doesn't do to read too much,' Widmerpool said. 'You get to look at life with a false perspective. By all means have some familiarity with the standard authors. I should never raise any objection to that. But it is no good clogging your mind with a lot of trash from modern novels.
Anthony Powell
#23. Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday
#24. It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.
John Boyne
#25. It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
#26. To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#27. Behind every drama is a good story ... behind every tear is the person who wrote it.
Faye Hall
#28. One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
Alain De Botton
#30. One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
#31. I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
Larry Brown
#32. 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
#33. Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
#35. You get a good review, and it's like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it's a slippery slope.
Alexandra Bracken
#36. Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days.
Julie Wright
#37. I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.
Vince Flynn
#38. 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
#39. Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M.J. Rose
#40. 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
#41. The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.
Thornton Wilder
#42. Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible.
C.S. Lewis
#43. 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
#44. Some presentation authors justify this by saying, "The photographer already knew it was going to be an uncredited effort and it really isn't that hard to take a good photograph.
Neal Ford
#45. 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
#46. When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.
Ellen Douglas
#47. Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#48. Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.
Sara Sheridan
#49. A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree ... they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.
Bobbi Romans
#50. No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
Elinor Florence
#51. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.
Mildred D. Taylor
#52. For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more
Brenda Kay Winters
#53. A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish ... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick DeWitt
#55. Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
Maggie Young
#56. During freedom struggle, It were authors and artists who made the Nation stand with their pen, and now their pen can create an environment of renaissance when Independent India is on the path of Good Governance.
Narendra Modi
#57. George, I know you're tired. But President Lincoln, he didn't free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.-George's Grandmother.
George Dawson
#58. I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.
Jack Dann
#59. I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
Judy Blume
#60. If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there's one thing we authors are good at, it's hand-waving.
Timothy Zahn
#61. That the reading of good books, is like the conversation with the honestest persons of the past age, who were the Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable.
Rene Descartes
#62. 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
#63. Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.
John Romaniello
#64. A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."
Thomas C. Foster
#65. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton
