Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
I hate actual newspapers. In my opinion, they are only good for wrapping up presents or cleaning mirrors. Or packing boxes. Or… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ]. I went on to… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Writing for publication is an art, a craft, and a business, so you need to develop skill sets in multiple areas. You… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The thing about glitter is if you get it on you, be prepared to have it on you forever. Because glitter doesn't… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for… — Taylor Kitsch Copy Share Image
I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you… — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
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