Books Quote by F. Sionil Jose

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will…

— Mister Lemur

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

— Calvin Trillin

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

— George Bernard Shaw

“the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power!”

— Romain Rolland

“A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off your blindness…

— Ksenia Anske

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big…

— Eric McCormack