A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri Baraka

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Jane Rule

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Kazuo Ishiguro

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
Aaron Eckhart

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
Randy West

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

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

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Helen Dunmore

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
Anne Rice

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
Samuel Smiles

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
Russell Banks

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
Dave Van Ronk

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
Edward Everett Hale

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.
Thurston Moore