Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass 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
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
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
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
I try to craft books that are fun, that are sort of subversively educational so kids learn but they don't really feel… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and… — Jeff Foote Copy Share Image
Worship is not music. We can certainly worship Him without musicians and without a song. And by the way, God does not… — Steven Rice Copy Share Image
So I'm always inspired by my fellow actors. And that's kind of a constant for me. I have huge respect for our… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may… — John Oates Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Even in acting, when I watch an actor who I find to be so truthful in their craft, or a musician who… — Tyler Blackburn 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
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
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
