There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes. — Barkhad Abdi 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 best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft. — Steve Kanaly Copy Share Image
Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone. — Justin Hires Copy Share Image
I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee. — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I find that I have done a pretty good job of fusing all three of them so far and I intend to… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Some can just knock it out and some have to lock themselves in a room and get to a fever pitch of… — Warren Leight Copy Share Image
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money… — Arthur Laurents Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
