...Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better… — David Foster Copy Share Image
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft. — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer… — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad… — Pat Forde Copy Share Image
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are. — Tina Howe Copy Share Image
The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in… — N. T. Rama Rao Jr Copy Share Image
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard Copy Share Image
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
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