On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned. — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I can't cook or do crafts. And put a soccer ball or a football in my hand, and I wouldn't know what… — Bethany Joy Galeotti Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our… — Michael Chiarello Copy Share Image
I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
