I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up. — Jacqueline Briskin Copy Share Image
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts. — James Frey Copy Share Image
Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
...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
I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer. — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
![“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to…” quote by Naomi Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/naomi-wallace-53600_alternatives_i-d-been-reading-daniel-defoe-s-journal_2455493.jpg)
