Art Quote by Suhayl Saadi

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

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

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

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

— Gore Vidal

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. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't…

— David Brin

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up;…

— Chuck Palahniuk

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it…

— Stephen King

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