Common Quote by Donald Hall

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

— Calvin Coolidge

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature…

— Samuel Johnson

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

— Ellen Glasgow

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

— Ted Hughes

“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.”

— Haruki Murakami

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be…

— Martin Amis

Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely written, beautifully…

— David Levering Lewis

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

— Robert McKee

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

— Fred Kaplan

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise