Art Quote by David Brin

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

— Peter Carey

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

— Jane Yolen

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument…

— Susan Wiggs

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a career.

— Rebecca Serle

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling…

— Anthony McCarten

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

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it…

— Stephen King