Attention Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It…

— Tom Clancy

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well.…

— Robert Jordan

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can…

— Leon Uris

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

— Yanni

“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you…

— M. Kirin

I look for that earnest yearning in talent, you may not be the best at what you do, but if you have the passion…

— Shakti Mohan

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

— Charlie Kaufman

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up;…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

— Jane Yolen

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

— Cyril Cusack

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

— Jodi Picoult

I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would…

— Rowan Atkinson