Writing Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Talent is often developed at the expense of character. The greater the talent, the more the mischief.”

— Melissa McPhail

“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

“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”

— Jean Anouilh

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

— Brenda Ueland

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

— Robertson Davies

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English essayist William…

— Matt Weiland

“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The devoid of talent and unskilled ones repudiate the value of one's writing that even is beautiful, and visionary, since one holds minor status,…

— Ehsan Sehgal