Criteria Quote by Jack Kerouac

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are…

— Jack Kerouac

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

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

— Peter Carey

“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

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

— Jane Yolen

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than…

— Walter Moers