Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged.… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up.… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
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
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it… — Philip Roth 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
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
“A quipu depends on the interaction of breath and thread, hand and voice. To write with breath is to see the body… — Jessica Hemmings Copy Share Image
you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there. — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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