Causes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

— Brian Aldiss

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

— Nikki Giovanni

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

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Martin Amis

A writer writes what other people only think.

— Sol Stein

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon