Crafts Quote by Alfred Lansing

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

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

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

Craft is part of the creative process.

— Gavin Bryars

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be…

— David Karp

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to…

— Alan Zweibel

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well,…

— Donald Miller

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

— Anne Lamott

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant