Books Quote by Michael Helm

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

— Christopher Isherwood

“I have my writers’ neuroses but not their talents.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“but talent is nothing without a field on which to display its gifts.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Jules Renard 1890

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“There was never talent, only hard work.”

— Yixing Zhang

“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

“Talents are like the fairies. If no-one believes in them, they die.”

— Chris Naylor

“Talent [by which I think she meant technique] without genius is not worth much; but genius without talent is worth nothing whatsoever.”

— John Eliot Gardiner

“Talent is nothing without persistence.”

— Dean Crawford

“I may not have a talent, but I am passionate.”

— Debasish Mridha