If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
Talent imitates, genius steals.
I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities of style. So that there is no composition without effort, without pain even, as in all bringing forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living--something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed attributes as orderliness and spontaneity, thought and imagination, solidity and charm.
The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.
McKinty is an exciting new talent.
We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.
People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.
The very first show I did was 'Fame L. A. ' Everyone had talent it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.
