Writing Skill Quotes

“In the last twenty years the colleges have been emphasizing creative writing to such an extent that you almost feel that any idiot with a nickel's worth of talent can emerge from a writing class able to write a competent story. In fact, so many people can now write competent stories that the short story as a medium is in danger of dying of competence. We want competence, but competence by itself is deadly. What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“In my opinion, writers and illustrators are both deep thinkers.
While writers use words and sentences to tell a story, illustrators nowadays use their talent and art to say the same story with their drawings and illustrations.
Both skills, writing, and drawing need much intellect, patience, determination, hard work, persistence, and practice.”
― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi