Writers-on-writing Quote by Christopher Isherwood

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“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 never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Jane Yolen

“Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.”

— Mike Engleman

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to listen to your mind and endure the life of the writer”

— Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale

“A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.”

— Bryant McGill

“Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Don't ask yourself if your talented - others answer that question. And if people do accept what you write, let your only conclusion be…

— Lyuben Dilov

“No one knows how talented you are until you show them.”

— Michele Gauthier

“I have no talents but reading. I”

— Michael Helm

“My writing is excellent. Perhaps I might call it a talent, I am quite the calligraphist. Let me write you something as a specimen.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky