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“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 teaching abroad.”

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Author:Richard K. Morgan

“A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.”

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Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

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

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Book:A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

Source: A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.”

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Author:Guy Maddin

“Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.”

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Author:Cole Porter

“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”

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Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

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Author:Herman Melville

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

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

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Book:Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Source: Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.”

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Author:Cole Porter

“People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.”

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Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

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

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Author:John Milton

“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.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.”

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Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.”

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Author:Jeanne Calment