Intellectual Quote by Anthony Burgess

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

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as…

— Anthony Burgess

“I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.”

— Anthony Burgess

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even…

— Anthony Burgess

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether…

— Alfred Binet

But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own…

— Michel Foucault

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

— Maya Angelou

“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its…

— Lisa Kleypas

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope