
Top 24 Brilliant Author Quotes
#1. Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.
A.M. Sawyer
#2. A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.
Seth Godin
#3. People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too
Martin Wolf
#4. Well, you seem to have embraced Union propaganda wholeheartedly, Sonmi-451.
And I might observe that you have embraced corpocracy propaganda wholeheartedly, Archivist.
David Mitchell
#5. But they were her parents! Putting up with all of her crap was their official job - they couldn't wriggle out of it! She tried to swallow the lump forming in her throat. How could they do this to her?
Gina Damico
#6. And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.
Chuck Klosterman
#7. I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.
Emma Bunton
#8. The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
Steven Furtick
#9. There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it ... others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.
Carl Henegan
#10. The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.
Elton John
#11. Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard
Rick Majerus
#12. Men. < ... > They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.
Cindy Gerard
#14. Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
Vanilla Ice
#15. My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.
David Lagercrantz
#16. Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.
Paul Strathern
#17. Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.
L.L. Caulton
#18. Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
Yuri Razuvaev
#19. If one person has loved another truly and wholly, then it is more than love that collapses when one side of the indissoluble partnership turns away with a tearful goodbye.
Doris Lessing
#20. Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Paul Samuelson
#21. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.
Ann Aguirre
#22. They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#23. If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author" might be reality and the "madman" just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.
Rivka Galchen
#24. A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.
Alison Gopnik
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