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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

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.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

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.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.