The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Each photographer has their own vibe and presence that they bring to their shoots. Steven Meisel is a teacher. He teaches everyone… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you… — Randy Johnson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love… — Faramir Copy Share Image
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on… — Allison Holker Copy Share Image
Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
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