Jilly Cooper Quotes

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Yes, I am very prolific.

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

There are many talented people.

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Making shots counts, but not as much as the people who make them.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.