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.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

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

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

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

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...

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 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...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The...

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The...

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...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

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...

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...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

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...

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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...

Groan and forget it.

Groan and forget it.

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.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.