I write because I love it, not because I excel at it.  But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent was a personality.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.