James A. Baldwin Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

  James A. Baldwin

  Happiness, Lying, Discipline

  The Paris Review Interview (Issues 91-94, p. 77), 1984.

• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Editors, Literature

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

• It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Important, Looks

  "Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.

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