A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere
French - Philosopher
1645 - 1696

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

Dorothy Parker

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.

Jack Canfield

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

George Gissing

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

Isaac D'Israeli

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

Victor LaValle

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.

Howard Zinn

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

Edgar Allan Poe

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Warren Beatty

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Henri Langlois

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

Orhan Pamuk

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Henry Ward Beecher

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

Heidi Hammel

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

James Taranto

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Jonathan Raymond

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.