A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
– Ambrose Bierce
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- If you know that I am genius Then know that you made me genius Everyone don’t accept me as genius Because they aren’t genius to belief me as genius – Hasil Paudyal
- A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove
- Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
- acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
- ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
- diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
- AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real! – rajuda
- The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular. – Alan Moore
- The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular. – Alan Moore
- Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes? – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A writer’s pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A good story invites us into someone else’s world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding. – Lynda Cheldelin Fell
- Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. – PG Wodehouse
- I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. – Dean Wesley Smith
- The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude. – David Halberstam
- Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories… – Andr Michael Pietroschek
- It ain’t just about writing on some documents,author writes on to the readers’ heart and mind. – Toba Beta
- It’s not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius. – Debasish Mridha
- How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius – or just a work – was refused them? – Simone de Beauvoir