Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
It didn't have to be a newfound respect for the craft, I knew that it's notoriously difficult and frightens a lot of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice… — Agnieszka Holland Copy Share Image
Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her… — Fritz Weaver Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the… — Ian Astbury 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
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I… — Hector Tobar 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
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more… — Kerry Joyce Copy Share Image
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there. — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. — George Miller Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
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