Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
. . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters… — Tina Howe Copy Share Image
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft… — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . .… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on… — Stella Soleil Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . .… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants,… — George Fawcett Copy Share Image
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my… — Darius McCrary Copy Share Image
I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was… — Mart Crowley Copy Share Image
In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but… — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
![“And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete…” quote by Edward Zwick](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/972/edward-zwick-24586_aliens_and-how-deeply-do-i-let-business-conside_302984.jpg)
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