Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.

“Anybody can fail.”

— M.G. Hardie

I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people…

— Edwidge Danticat

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my…

— Dwayne Johnson

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

— Ian Ziering

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from…

— Kenzaburo Oe

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination…

— Kevin Powers

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about…

— Richard K. Morgan

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

— John Milton

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson