Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever… — Adam Driver 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
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and… — Jeff Foote Copy Share Image
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked… — Steve Williams Copy Share Image
I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on… — Ali Farahnakian Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad… — Pat Forde Copy Share Image
