Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“A quipu depends on the interaction of breath and thread, hand and voice. To write with breath is to see the body… — Jessica Hemmings Copy Share Image
The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think your posing and your onstage presentation is yet another piece of the craft. So anytime you get onstage to show… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image