Assuming Quote by Umberto Eco

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

— Milan Kundera

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's…

— Maria Edgeworth

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of…

— Liev Schreiber

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is…

— Umberto Eco

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

— Louis L'Amour

“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really…

— Joe Queenan

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

— Mason Cooley