Stephen King Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Real

• Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

  Stephen King

  Art, Hurt, Memories

• Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Don't Give Up, Talent

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.559, Simon and Schuster

• I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

• Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

  Stephen King

  Success, Cutting, Knives

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

  Stephen King

  Belief, Talent, Telepathy

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

• Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Reading, Eye

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

  Stephen King

  Work, Cutting, Successful

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

  Stephen King

  Art, Giving, Talent

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 20, 2014

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Talent, Said

• Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

  Stephen King

  Common, Artistic, Talent

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

• You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

  Stephen King

  Father, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

• We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Thinking, Elements

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

• Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

  Stephen King

  Cutting, Knives, Discipline

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

• Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Feet, Rocks

• The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

  Stephen King

  Book, Important, Stories

  "New Sex Allegations Against Pastor; GOP Puts it in Writing; Diabetes Drug Decision; The E-Books Revolution According to Stephen King; Doctor Detectives; CNN Equals Politics, What's Hot; Chilean Miners Awaiting Rescue". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. September 23, 2010.

• Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

  Stephen King

  Dying, Growing, Talent

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