A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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What this quote means
Writing is a skill that requires practice and learning over time.
Katherine Anne Porter's quote emphasizes that writing is not just a natural talent but a craft that can be honed through dedicated practice and study. Just like any other profession, aspiring writers should approach it with the mindset of an apprentice, recognizing the need for continuous learning and improvement to master the art of writing.
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WritingCraftApprenticeshipLearningSkill
In practice
Example use cases
In a writing workshop, you could use this quote to encourage participants to embrace the learning process.
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You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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Now and again thousands of memories _x000D_ converge, harmonize, _x000D_ arrange themselves around a central idea _x000D_ in a coherent form, _x000D_ and I write a story.
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