There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest HemingwayIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeTags: good bad charming tedious
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.
Philip PullmanTags: truth love lies evil good mrs-coulter
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Simone WeilTags: reality morality ethics evil good
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
Diane SetterfieldTags: good
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.
“No, I’m not,” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!
Tags: good law hermione-granger ministry-of-magic
Have I said anything I started out to say about being good? God, I don’t know. A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
Ray BradburyYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Malcolm ForbesTags: morality good measure nobility treat
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice WalkerIf only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: evil good black-and-white-thinking good-and-evil
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