Book Quote by Roy Peter Clark

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We read often with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Peter Carey

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

— Jane Yolen

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

— Katherine Dunn

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

— Firoozeh Dumas

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin