Talent is nothing without persistence.
“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have...”
“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got ...”
“Sacred soul has indomitable strength.”
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”