Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Katherine Anne Porter, (May 15 1894-1980), US novelist, short-story writer; She was a master stylist of texture and complexity of character delineation; won Pulitzer, 1966, for her only full length novel Ship of Fools.