Genius Quote by Zadie Smith

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

— Carl Sandburg

Genius is not dependent on playing safe or by the book, but by moving around your imagination hook.

— Tasneem Hameed

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

— Eric Weiner

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

— Madame de Stael

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

— June Jordan

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

— J. G. Ballard

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

— Andre Malraux

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

— Arthur Schopenhauer