Writing Quote by Martin Amis

“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

“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

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Most people fail not for lack of talent but for lack of imagination. You can get a lot of this information by sitting down…

— Bill Burnett

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— 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

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

— Jane Yolen

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also…

— Anton Chekhov