Books Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

— Ambrose Bierce

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

— Marty Neumeier

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

— Christopher Ricks

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

— Jacob Bronowski

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

— Eugene Delacroix

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without…

— Napoleon Hill

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran