Great Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Peter Carey

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else and usually its reading his own handwriting.

— G Norman Collie

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

— J. Norman Collie

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Jane Yolen

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

— Paul Desmond