"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." ~Logan Pearsall Smith

A good author is one that does not tell what the moral of the story is, but makes the reader decide what it is.  I like it when the author presents a novel with an underlining moral to the story.  It makes the reader think, which I feel is important for a good novel to have.  I also like it when the author ends the book with a little mystery.  It makes the reader decide what the author's ending was, and the reader can come up with their own ending.