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Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
— Ernest Hemingway,
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.
— A.D. Posey
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.
— Robert Stacy McCain
We often read with as much talent as we write.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
— Natalie Goldberg
No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.
— Haruki Murakami
Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
— Sara Sheridan
I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
— Jack Kerouac
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
There are different kinds of talent. Maybe your talent is in interpretation. Maybe you're a stylist.
— Rainbow Rowell
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
I didn't even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
— Xavier Atencio
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
— Robert Benchley
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?Sam: No.
Toby: Somewhere in this building ... is our talent. — Aaron Sorkin
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
— Truman Capote
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.
— Anthony Hopkins
Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.
— Thomas Mann
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
— Sara Sheridan
If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
— Anne Frank
Good writing comes from good talent.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.
— Pattiann Rogers
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
— Donald Hall
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
— Dorothy Parker
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith ... talent is the smallest part of it.
— Jodi Picoult
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.
— Jessamyn West
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
— Nadine Gordimer
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.
— Shiloh Fernandez
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.
— Bill McKibben
Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..
— Himmilicious
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
— Roy Peter Clark
Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.
— Anthony Powell
Success and talent aren't even in the same neighborhood.
— Jenny Trout
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
— Gore Vidal
Talent is long patience.
— Gustave Flaubert
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
— Jonathan Dee
I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training
— Robert A. Heinlein
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
— William Shakespeare
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.
— Mike Engleman
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family.
— Kamala Suraiyya Das
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
— Haruki Murakami
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
— Witold Gombrowicz
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
— John Grisham
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
— Toni Morrison
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
— Jules Renard 1890
If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.
— Christopher Isherwood
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
— Honore De Balzac
