“…discipline and devotion and skill are a trio that overwhelms any presumed talent any day of the week. You can be as talented as you want, but you still need to sit down, learn your craft and then demonstrate it. Over and over again. If – if! — talent is a real thing, the best that it gets you is that it cuts down the time it takes for you to get to a qualified end result.”
—Chuck Wendig, “NaNoWriMo Dialogues: “On Doubt, Talent, Failure, And Quitting” [x]