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

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline…

— Ted Solotaroff

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people;…

— Paul Lockhart

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act…

— George Lucas

We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as…

— Steven Dietz

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the…

— Sam Shepard

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of…

— Sam Shepard

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is…

— Federico Fellini

“A small compromise leads to another small compromise, and finally we wind up doing something that we do not really love. It's a sneaky…

— James Krenov

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not…

— Aberjhani

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films.…

— Tim Cahill

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

— Tom Stoppard

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at…

— Ai Weiwei

“A kilt swings with the wind and stands firm in spirit—Scottish soul in every fold.”

— Haider Ali Bajwa

“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the…

— John Gardner