Always Quote by V. S. Naipaul

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 worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think…

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Katherine Anne Porter

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later…

— Sharon Creech

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career,…

— Victoria Gotti

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me…

— Julie Klassen

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

— Courtney A. Kemp

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

— Matt Ridley