Books Quote by Annie Proulx

“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem…

— Cal Newport

“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”

— Dōgen

“Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the…

— Jeanette Winterson

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

— H. P. Lovecraft

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you…

— Terry Pratchett

“What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?”

— Michelle Dennis Evans

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is…

— Federico Fellini

“A small compromise leads to another small compromise, and finally we wind up doing something that we do not really love. It's a sneaky…

— James Krenov

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not…

— Aberjhani

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films.…

— Tim Cahill

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

— Tom Stoppard