Apprenticeship Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

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

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced…

— Rod Serling

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

— Irwin Shaw

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

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

I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come…

— Robert Lowell

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris