Ability Quote by Stephen King

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small…

— Stephen King

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

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

— Peter Carey

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would…

— Rowan Atkinson

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write,…

— Octavia Butler

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

— Jane Yolen

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

— Shiloh Fernandez

PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the…

— Alexander Chee

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

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff