Awkward Quote by Sara Coleridge

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is…

— Emily Post

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something.…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”

— Oscar Wilde

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Dorothy Parker

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

— Nick Laird

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over the telephone…

— Vladimir Nabokov

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

— Woodrow Wilson

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

— George Bernard Shaw

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

— Geoffrey Chaucer