Authors Quote by Julia Quinn

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't…

— David Brin

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

— Jane Yolen

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Peter Carey

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

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of…

— Vera Brittain

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least…

— Stephen King

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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