Intellectual Quote by Elvis Presley

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

— Vanna Bonta

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but…

— Jane Birkin

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous

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

— Milan Kundera

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— H. L. Mencken

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

— Travis Barker

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous