Arrivals Quote by Judy Delton

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

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

“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

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

— Jodi Picoult

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

— Gore Vidal

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

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument…

— Susan Wiggs

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure.…

— Marge Piercy