Bits Quote by Martin Amis

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

— J. B. Priestley

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's brilliant there are so many writer-performers around.

— Daisy May Cooper

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent…

— Flannery O'Connor

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi

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

— Nikki Giovanni

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut