Crafts Quote by Douglas Adams

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing…

— Douglas Adams

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

— Mark Rubinstein

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

— James D. Houston

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one…

— Nora Roberts

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey