Doubt Quote by Richard Bausch

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

— Peter Carey

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

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

— Jodi Picoult

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Jane Yolen

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come…

— Robert Lowell

“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

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder