Dirty Quote by Diane Setterfield

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

— Dorothy Parker

“For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or…

— Steven Millhauser

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

It's very hard to plagiarize true genius.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

— Anonymous

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

— Charles Caleb Colton

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

— Plautus

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

— Thomas A. Edison

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer