Daniel Tammet Quotes
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.
Tammet, Daniel. Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind. Atria Books, 2009.
The best example of this is the role that distant history has in the current Balkans and Arab countries where terrible current judgment about society or foreign affairs is totally driven by an exquisitely detailed memory of a particular version of distant history.
Daniel Tammet FRSA is an English essayist, novelist, poet, translator, and autistic savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. His second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada.
