When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way. — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is… — Steven Dietz Copy Share Image
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always… — Philip Gerard 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
We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite… — Ayelet Waldman 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
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Creation from chaos is natural. We've come to a place where we've realized that we have this actual physical need to create… — Renee Rigdon Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision. — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your… — Rick Jarow Copy Share Image
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
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