Differences Quote by Robert Stacy McCain

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

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

— Jodi Picoult

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

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

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 like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

— Samuel R. Delany

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

— Caroline Leavitt

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

— Robert Lepage

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose