Crafts Quotes · Page 21

When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be…

— Jonathan Sadowski

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels…

— Thomas Lennon

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

— Peter Thiel

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the…

— Chuck Close

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

— Paul Samuelson

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

— John Steinbeck

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways…

— David B. Coe

You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of…

— Bruce McDonald

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing…

— Flannery O'Connor

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical…

— Janet Echelman

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a…

— Kate Bush

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an…

— Patti LuPone

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about…

— Edward Zwick

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him…

— Eric McCormack

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction…

— Eudora Welty

I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration…

— Julie Dillon

The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come…

— Paul Lockhart

Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic.…

— Margaret Kilgallen

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother,…

— David Henry Hwang

I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are…

— Christopher Judge

As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're…

— John Fogerty

I really enjoyed working with Daniel [Craig], because he's a brilliant actor at the top of his game. That gave me an…

— Naomie Harris

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

— Vera Wang

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

— Fred Rogers

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

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

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

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most…

— Alan Lightman

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes…

— Mick Jagger

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

— Kid Rock

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

— John Thorn

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

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

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

— Carrie Mae Weems

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at…

— Al Pacino

I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what…

— Azealia Banks