Activity Quote by Madison Smartt Bell

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

— 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

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Irwin Shaw

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

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you…

— Mark Twain

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

— Roy Blount, Jr

“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.”

— Sara Sheridan

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically…

— Erica Jong

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman