Writing Craft Talent Quotes

#1. French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#2. One can give 'correct' opinion only if one has an open mind.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Stephen King

#4. In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

Richard Mottram

#5. How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#6. I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

A Meredith Walters

#7. What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

Maria Bamford

#9. It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

Osho

#10. I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

James Cameron

#11. Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Jeffrey Carver

#12. We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

Kyle Chandler

#13. I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#14. Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.

Lisa Cron

#15. Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#16. You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

Michael Chabon

#17. Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

Adriana Trigiani

#18. The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#19. Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

Kathryn Gustafson

#20. 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.

Susan Wiggs

#21. However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#22. What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#23. Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Witold Gombrowicz