Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana Copy Share Image
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a… — Jane Anderson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all… — Adepero Oduye Copy Share Image
I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes… — A. R. Gurney Copy Share Image
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a… — James Dean Copy Share Image
I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. — Roy Eldridge Copy Share Image
Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
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