Writing Quote by James Jones Download Open image ““Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.”” — James Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“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 Copy Share Image
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.” — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” — Jules Renard 1890 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ” — Robert Stump Copy Share Image
“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built," she said. "Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.” — James Jones Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“So a new element darkled in their already darkling mood: a somber, deep-rooted bitterness which would grow and grow until it would make of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now.… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them… — James Jones Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
