A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace Copy Share Image
There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft. — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?. — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often… — Yasmin Ahmad Copy Share Image
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on… — Ali Farahnakian Copy Share Image
The smell of roses, my children's bright eyes and smiles, laughing with my husband, walking on the beach, using my hands to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.There is no doubt… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what… — Wallace Shawn 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
I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do… — Stephen Sommers 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
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
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
![“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but…” quote by Stanley Tucci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/stanley-tucci-10260_character_hollywood-studios-are-handing-out-money_2775030.jpg)
![“[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction…” quote by David Hare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/david-hare-9074_broadway_via-dolorosa-s-pushing-broadway-as-far-a_1470265.jpg)
