There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.” — Hervé Le Tellier Copy Share Image
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you?… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè. — John Milton Copy Share Image
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost.… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
