Business Quote by Philip Pullman

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't…

— David Brin

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

— Jane Yolen

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

— Peter Carey

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

— Jodi Picoult

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've…

— Nicole Krauss

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer