Apprenticeship Quote by Russell Banks

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

— Irwin Shaw

The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an…

— James Salter

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

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Courtney A. Kemp

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

— Maureen Johnson

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Writing is a chore.

— Paul Gilbert

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work,…

— Doris Lessing