Craft Quote by Andre Aciman Download Open image “Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.” — Andre Aciman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Craft Devoted Devoted Craft Her Nemirovsky Prolific Prolific Prolific Writer Punctiliously Devoted Writer Writer Punctiliously Writing
“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and craft of… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
Learn your craft. You want to be a doctor or a teacher - it's very important to learn your craft and indulge in it.… — Robert Horry Copy Share Image
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have a lot of fun working and training and learning and trying to figure out the different aspects of my craft. — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
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