Intellectual Quote by Anthony Burgess

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

— Milan Kundera

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant…

— Truman Capote

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's…

— Jorge Luis Borges

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]”

— Arthur C. Clarke

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

— Sol LeWitt

“[T]he narrative intelligences of our books should leave us feeling a bit pressed intellectually, a bit outmatched, amazed ultimately by the talent of the…

— Bryan Basamanowicz

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— Richard Rorty

“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something, when you…

— Colm Tóibín

I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat