Be good Quote by Dmitri Shostakovich

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Martin Amis

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

— Adam Grant

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

— Bill James

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

— J. B. Priestley

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

— Dorothy Parker

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the…

— Mark Twain

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

— Nikki Giovanni