Sistine chapel Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

— Jane Yolen

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up;…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you…

— M. Kirin