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

— Jodi Picoult

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 a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

— Robert Stacy McCain

“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you…

— M. Kirin

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 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

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

— John Milius

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

— Gore Vidal

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

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability…

— Stephen King