Ability Quote by Quentin S. Crisp

To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength…

— Dervla Murphy

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to…

— Amy Tan

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment,…

— Seamus Heaney

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

— Matthew Vaughn

“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I could express…

— Tony Gaskins Jr

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

— Joseph C Zinker

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

— John Hodgman

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that…

— Christina Baldwin

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is…

— Leslie Jamison

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I…

— Greg Iles

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration...

— Leonard Bishop