Books Quote by Joseph Addison

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

— Heinrich Heine

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

— Anonymous

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

— Neville Cardus

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.”

— Sean Patrick

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“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

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

— Carl Sandburg

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking,…

— Elbert Hubbard