Wisdom Quote by Milo Behr

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane…

— L.A. Dale

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

— Martin Amis

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just…

— Jack Kerouac

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

— Dorothy Parker

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

— Raymond Carver

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Genius writers write simple, Garbage writers write fancy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which…

— Joseph Addison

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not…

— Madame de Stael