The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going? — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft. — Patti LaBelle 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
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
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
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron 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
Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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