Crafts Quotes · Page 54

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]…

— Laurie Anderson

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that.…

— Charlie Puth

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

— E. B. White

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then…

— Paul Klee

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or…

— Mike Svob

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That…

— Jerry Colangelo

All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got…

— John Patrick Shanley

What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively…

— Howard Gordon

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into…

— Sam Lake

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a…

— Kate Bush

Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna…

— Dennis O'Neil

There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this…

— Robert Redford

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and…

— Muriel Spark

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and…

— Lisa Loomer

There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed.…

— Anonymous

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

— Edward M. Lerner

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…

— Terrence McNally

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

— Robin Sharma

Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic…

— Mary Daly

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our…

— Rico Lebrun

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off…

— Lisa Loeb

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.…

— Richard Price

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There…

— Al Pacino

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation…

— Ron Dennis