Common 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. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— 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

Talent is often a defect in character.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

— Colin Clark

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions…

— Wilfrid Sheed

My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand…

— Anthony McCarten

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

— Jane Yolen

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

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and…

— Harlan Ellison