Crafts Quotes · Page 9

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

— Leonard Michaels

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

— Stephen King

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

— Jacqueline Briskin

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

— P. D. James

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

— Dorothy Allison

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

— Andre Gide

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

— Joyce Carol Oates

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going…

— Jennifer Carpenter

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of…

— Ford Madox Ford

We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.

— Alan Arnett McLeod

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be…

— Percy Lubbock

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

— Sonya Hartnett

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

— Jacques Barzun

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite…

— Ayelet Waldman

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come…

— Jeffrey Lewis

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it…

— Jimmy Knepper

I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being…

— Sheryl Crow

I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her…

— August Wilson

It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,…

— Paul Goodman

I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so…

— Philip Kan Gotanda

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

There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth…

— Satish Kumar

We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep…

— Ian Gillan

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

— Janet Burroway

In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With…

— Dylan Thomas

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

— Martin McDonagh

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

— Peter Murphy

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

— Lavrenti Lopes

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

— Mark Twain

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

— William H. Gass

In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.

— Ace Hood