Crafts Quotes · Page 3

I take my craft very seriously.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

— Samuel Fuller

The furthest out is the only place to be.

— Stanley Elkin

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

— Waldo Salt

I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Art is craft, not inspiration.

— Stephen Sondheim

First thought, best thought.

— Allen Ginsberg

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

— Peter Murphy

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

— Eugen Herrigel

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

— Horace

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

— Leonard Michaels

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

— Stephen King

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

— Hal Hartley

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

— Robert Bringhurst

If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often…

— Yasmin Ahmad

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

— Stephen Graham Jones

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's…

— Luke Evans

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well.…

— Alex Steffen

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and…

— Pearl S. Buck

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

— Michael Caine

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it…

— James Dickey

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a…

— Erwin Chargaff

I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be…

— Kevin Systrom

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need…

— Lisa Gardner

Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…

— Michael Parenti

I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but…

— Brett Dennen

Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality…

— Oleta Adams

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will…

— Twyla Tharp

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it…

— Shane Black

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment…

— Sigmund Freud

I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend…

— John Legend

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia…

— Ernest Nagel

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the…

— Anton Chekhov

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what…

— Wallace Shawn

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to…

— Naomi Wallace

An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as…

— David Wright