A Quote by J. G. Ballard

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

J. G. Ballard

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J. G. Ballard
British - Novelist
November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Leo Burnett

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

Thomas J. Barratt

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Samuel Butler

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

E. F. Schumacher

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

David Ogilvy

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Woody Guthrie

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

Charles Fletcher Lummis

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Clive Barker

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Rudyard Kipling

I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

Alexander Chee

Not to name names, but a lot of pop female artists you see, they don't write their own songs. Lot of top male artists and boy band artists, they don't write their own songs. They're just a product. They sell, they sell, they sell. They don't care about musical integrity, any of that kind of stuff.

Duff McKagan

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Mohsin Hamid

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

Theodore Roethke

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