Crafts Quotes · Page 12

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

— David Hare

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

— Roy Eldridge

When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.

— Thom Jones

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

— Robert Stone

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

— Tony Vincent

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

— William Tyndale

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a…

— Josef Sudek

The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the…

— Alberto Villoldo

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want…

— Duncan Sheik

I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

— William H. Macy

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft…

— Topher Grace

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common…

— Alberto Manguel

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're…

— Donald O'Connor

The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but…

— Mitt Romney

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as…

— Jane Rule

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft,…

— Douglas Conant

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like…

— Ryan Adams

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have…

— Ellen Barkin

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling…

— Tabatha Coffey

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit…

— Sue Grafton

I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on…

— Stella Soleil

I think most micro-brewers/craft-brewers are similar in that they enjoy making something themselves and at the end of the day they can…

— Michael Jordan

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.…

— Anonymous

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a…

— William Faulkner

There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a…

— Kobe Bryant

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,…

— Robert C. Solomon

I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely…

— Donald Margulies

My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,…

— Gustave Flaubert

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

— Zubin Mehta

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

— Leonard Michaels

He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

— George Herbert

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

— Judi Dench

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

— Paul Singer

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

— Edmund Gosse

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

— Anne Sexton

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

— Ansel Adams