Advise Quote by Harper Lee

“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide."…

— Harper Lee

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough…

— Rhianna Pratchett

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

— Jane Yolen

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

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability…

— Stephen King

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Peter Carey

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

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

“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

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway