Inspiration Quote by M. Kirin

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

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

— Anna Kamienska

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood

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 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 have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

— Charlie Kaufman

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

You can be talented, but having great talent isn't enough. You have to work every day or someone will pass you up.

— Frank Gore

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

— David Mamet