Crafts Quotes · Page 20

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

— Jennifer Ellison

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are…

— Jordan Bridges

The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives;…

— Jean-Claude Carriere

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and…

— Arthur Miller

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right…

— Isaac Babel

Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even…

— Roy Peter Clark

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations…

— David Rabe

I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So…

— Blake Lively

Definitely I want to be rewarded for my craft and take care of my family 'cause at the end of the day…

— Sean Price

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

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

— Katie Couric

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

— Doris Grumbach

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue…

— Adina Porter

Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

— Robert Frost

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as…

— Sam Shepard

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to…

— John Locke

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

— W. Somerset Maugham

On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they…

— Thucydides

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and…

— Willa Cather

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver