Life Quote by Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

“Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.”

— Mike Engleman

My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand…

— Anthony McCarten

“Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that…

— Octavia E. Butler

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”

— Jean Anouilh