Erika Dreifus

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Natural talent matters much more than I realized when I started to teach myself how to write, and if I want to keep writing I have to make my peace with the fact that I don’t have as much of it as I would like.

Source: Michael Bourne’s “Failure Is an Option,” the “Why We Write” column in the latest (September/October 2015) issue of Poets & Writers.