Colin singleton Quote by John Green

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

— Mara Wilson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn’t honest enough with himself to draw…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

— Michael Ian Black

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

— Jack Kerouac

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

— Patricia Hampl

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost