Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. — Lazaro Hernandez Copy Share Image
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is… — Steven Dietz Copy Share Image
A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way. — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting… — Scott Frank Copy Share Image
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
