Craft Quotes

641 Craft quotes by 534 unique authors

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. — Geoffrey Chaucer
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. — John Steinbeck
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. — Joss Whedon
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… — Alberto Manguel
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.… — Aristotle
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that… — Alberto Manguel
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want… — Marilyn Monroe
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… — Marisha Pessl
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in… — George Steiner
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. — Demetri Martin
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged… — Eoin Colfer
Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for… — Anne Rice
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows… — Ellen Hopkins
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest… — Brennan Manning
Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are… — Dean Koontz
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when… — Lois Duncan
Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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