Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they… — Rocco Landesman Copy Share Image
Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who… — Bryan Adams 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
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most micro-brewers/craft-brewers are similar in that they enjoy making something themselves and at the end of the day they can… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on… — Stella Soleil Copy Share Image
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . .… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less… — Lanza del Vasto Copy Share Image
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.” — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid. — Richard Cantillon Copy Share Image
Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“My mom made the trays out of kits she bought at Michaels. She's crackled the shit out of them so they look… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
![“There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.” quote by Rocco Landesman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3c/rocco-landesman-79644_crafts_there-is-a-trend-in-the-whole-u-s-cultur_1358287.jpg)
![“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ff6/william-faulkner-306_absolutes_yes-sir-you-can-be-more-careless-you-can_1716854.jpg)
![“And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete…” quote by Edward Zwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/972/edward-zwick-24586_aliens_and-how-deeply-do-i-let-business-conside_302984.jpg)
