Breadth Quote by Hilary Mantel

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“ He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. {Edison's opinion of the great…

— Thomas Edison

I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the table in…

— John Buffalo Mailer

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw…

— David Low

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself,…

— Honore de Balzac

“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his books. He…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably…

— Kevin Hearne

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing…

— Melvin Burgess