Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana Copy Share Image
I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. — Roy Eldridge Copy Share Image
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more… — Kerry Joyce Copy Share Image
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,… — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the… — Tom Hanks 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
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When do I say No? I say No when I feel that the intention of the play, or the spirit, or tone… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image