Art Quote by Douglas Adams

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage…

— Douglas Adams

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

— Katherine Anne Porter

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

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

— Marie Arana

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

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way…

— Sam Shepard

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there…

— Hanya Yanagihara

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting.…

— Lennie James

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi