Crafts Quotes · Page 22

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

— Kid Rock

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

— John Thorn

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes…

— Mick Jagger

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most…

— Alan Lightman

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

— Melissa Febos

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

People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you…

— Randy Johnson

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &…

— Mark Twain

I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm…

— Matana Roberts

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of…

— Graham Swift

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later…

— Angela Lansbury

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the…

— Andy Serkis

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest…

— Anonymous

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's…

— Paula Vogel

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve…

— Aristotle

I really enjoyed working with Daniel [Craig], because he's a brilliant actor at the top of his game. That gave me an…

— Naomie Harris

As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're…

— John Fogerty

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are…

— Christopher Judge

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I…

— Irving Stone

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express…

— Janet Burroway

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

— Kobe Bryant

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right…

— Isaac Babel

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

— Raymond Carver

[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

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

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

— H. W. Janson

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money…

— Arthur Laurents

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always…

— Philip Gerard

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

— Ben Kingsley

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

— Joseph Conrad

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all…

— Kristin Davis

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

— Kellan Lutz

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

— LL Cool J

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

— Paul Goodman

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I…

— Eva Mendes