Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. — Henry James
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty. — Edmund Gosse
You must render: never report. — Guy de Maupassant
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he… — Ford Madox Ford
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell
Any work of art must first of all tell a story. — Robert Frost
Good enough is never good enough. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie
We want someone to bring us the news. — William Gaddis
The furthest out is the only place to be. — Stanley Elkin
Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue. — Arthur Penn
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… — Sigmund Freud
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. — Virginia Woolf
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the… — Franz Kafka
The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise. — Eugen Herrigel
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give… — Anton Chekhov
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder… — Mark Twain
No ideas but in things. — William Carlos Williams
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov

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