Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren. — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write. — Philip Kan Gotanda Copy Share Image
When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart. — Thom Jones Copy Share Image
When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
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