Good looking and good luck don't always walk the same road.
Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap.
Good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.
Good accounts make good friends.
And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.
[repeated line] Edward R. Murrow: Good night, and good luck.
A good deed will make a good neighbor.
A good memory is not so good as a little ink.
The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
Good advice is given; good esteem is no given.
I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I am an artist. I have the ability to put onto paper, words that tell an intriguing story. I am a writer. A writer is someone who, with just words, can...
[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that the job of the author is to show, not tell. Needless to say, many great novelists combine "dramatic" showing with lo...
A good man, but his mad dog won't let you speak to him.
I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for liter...
The writer doesn’t want to disclose or instruct or advocate, he wants to transmute and disturb. He cherishes the mystery, he cares for it like a fugitive in his cabin, his cave. He doesn’t want to talk it into giving itself up. He would never tur...
A good conversation is better than a good bed.
A good name is better than good habits.
