Desire Quote by Nora Roberts

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion.…

— Harlan Ellison

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you…

— Michael Chabon

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

— Jane Yolen

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability…

— Stephen King

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it…

— Stephen King

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

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

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the…

— Alexander Chee

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

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can…

— Leon Uris