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“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

“But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”
― Elizabeth Hand, Illyria

“Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche