Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Quote by Jessamyn West

Topics: Talent Quotes, Writing Quotes

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has...

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the...

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

Groan and forget it.

Groan and forget it.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness....

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness....

Proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

Proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

Discrimination, knowledge, non-delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control over the mind and senses, pleasure, pain, birth, death,...

Discrimination, knowledge, non-delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control over the mind and senses, pleasure, pain, birth, death,...

Mom always said to laugh at my mistakes so pardon me if I laugh in...

Mom always said to laugh at my mistakes so pardon me if I laugh in...