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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.

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

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

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.

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.

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.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

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

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

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