| It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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Edit quoteSimilar quotesA very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.
P. J. O'Rourke 
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer 
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Patrick Dennis 
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small— but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine Mansfield 
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