Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving.
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
