Character Quote by Colum McCann

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

— David Foster Wallace

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that.…

— Amity Shlaes

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

— John Cleese

If they are just, they are better than clever.

— Sophocles

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

— J. B. Priestley

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

— Martin Amis

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

— Matt Groening

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of…

— Liev Schreiber