Ability Quote by Francine Prose

Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That…

— Frances Ridley Havergal

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their…

— Mel Brooks

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material.…

— George Carlin

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for…

— Hunter S. Thompson

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.…

— Nicole Krauss

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or…

— Anonymous

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

— Walter Benjamin

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

— Naomi Campbell

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

— Suzanne Collins

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field,…

— David Brock

I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.

— Phaneesh Murthy