However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.
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 any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
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 the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Writing can't be taught.
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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