“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”

William Kent Krueger (1950) author, novelist

“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”

Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

Richard Dawkins book The Magic of Reality

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist

“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer