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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

— Lisa Kleypas

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

— Romeo Santos

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

— Alan Furst

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'

— Jane Lindskold

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

— Yo-Yo Ma

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

— Julianna Baggott

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

— Cyril Cusack

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

— Gene Luen Yang

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