Crafts Quotes · Page 8

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

— John L'Heureux

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

— Joseph Caryl

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

— Frank Langella

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

— Barkhad Abdi

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

— T. S. Eliot

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

— Aaron Carter

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

— Fede Alvarez

If you love your craft there will be passion. Most of my films are with people who are really passionate about what…

— Chris Hegedus

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

— George Saunders

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

— Erik Adigard

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

— Vidal Sassoon

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

— Robert McKee

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

— Jane McGonigal

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you…

— Lois Duncan

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,…

— Bahá'u'lláh

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There…

— Al Pacino

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he…

— Tristan Jones

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just…

— Flannery O'Connor

Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings…

— Noma Bar

I thought I'd go to a craft fair, and there would be a jar of jellybeans there - "Guess how many jellybeans…

— Mitch Hedberg

There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a…

— Frank O'Connor

I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is…

— Eva LaRue

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a…

— Leon Uris

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader…

— Barbara Tuchman

It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture,…

— Patch Adams

I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking…

— Nipsey Hussle

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating,…

— Bill Atkinson

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of…

— Warren Leight

You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who…

— Trevanian

Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than…

— Leonard Michaels

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

— Sam Shepard

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill

— Frank Langella

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft,

— Twyla Tharp

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

— Farrah Fawcett

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

— W. H. Auden

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

— Tristan Jones

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

— Brooke Shields