The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm

There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.
John Irving

If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Wislawa Szymborska

The talent is in the choices.
Robert De Niro

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
Wanda Sykes

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
Sidney Sheldon

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
Robert Capa

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.
Kurt Russell

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Garth Brooks

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton