Any Quote by Stephen King

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least…

— Stephen King

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

— Jane Yolen

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

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

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

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

— Peter Carey

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and…

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut