Crafts Quotes

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In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies. — Martin Luther
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great… — Jeff Foote
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only… — Will Smith
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything… — Henry Beston
Self-confidence can be crippling. — Leonard Michaels
There are no rules, but you break them at your peril. — Peter Guber
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do. — Donald Barthelme
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so. — Hans Hofmann
Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to… — Amy Hempel
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1. — Tom Stoppard
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. — Moliere
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that… — Sherwood Anderson
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel
Wake the happy words. — Theodore Roethke
Make the drummer sound good. — Steve Lacy
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth

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