Books Quote by Joseph Heller

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

— Leo Tolstoy

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

— Aldous Huxley

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

— Carlos Fuentes

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

— Philip Larkin

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

— Janet Fitch

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

— Aimee Bender

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of…

— Ernest Hemingway