Determination Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand…

— Anthony McCarten

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

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

— Jane Yolen

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

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

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

— Paresh Rawal

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

— Cyril Cusack

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

— Peter Carey