Moving Quote by Benjamin Percy

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And…

— Anna Deavere Smith

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

— Gloria Naylor

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

— Barbara Corcoran

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you…

— Haruki Murakami

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

— Wallace Stegner

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

— David Mamet

“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

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

— Bill Johnson

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

— Rush Limbaugh