Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. -- James Baldwin

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 Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels.

Quote via Rolf Potts & from The Paris Review, "The Art of Fiction No. 78", interviewed by Jordan Elgrably, 1984.