"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
— P.C. Cast (Betrayed)

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

"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 Walker

"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
— Erica Jong

"'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 Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

-this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else."
— Richard Dawkins

"Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived."
— Shane Claiborne

"He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad. "
— James Dashner (The Journal of Curious Letters)

"So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"There was something sort of bleak about her tone, rather as if she had swallowed an east wind. This I took to be due to the fact that she probably hadn't breakfasted. It's only after a bit of breakfast that I'm able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow the universal favourite. I'm never much of a lad till I've engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee.

"I suppose you haven't breakfasted?"

"I have not yet breakfasted."

"Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?"

"No, thank you."

She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence."
— P.G. Wodehouse

""Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
"They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us." "
— Sherwood Smith (Crown Duel)

"As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"True and baseless evil is as rare a the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."
— Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)

"They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Jesus Christ"
— Various

"The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
And only You can see the good in broken things
You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
And set this prisoner free"
— Bethany Dillon

"And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."
— Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds"
— Henry David Thoreau

"My boy's wicked smart."
— casey affleck's character in 'good will hunting'

"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."
— Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang)

"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 Bradbury

"i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad "
— Sanchez Raymundo

"If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?"
— Patricia Briggs (Raven's Strike)

"In all my past life I have done nothing either great or good."
— Patrick Branwell Brontë

"love same body who love you"
— Love Food

"The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all."
— Douglas Martin