Crafts Quotes

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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a… — Ernest Gaines
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov
Drama is a gun that doesn't go off. — Jonis Agee
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke
You don't want to OD on improvisation. — Patti Smith
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making… — Willa Cather
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up. — William H. Gass
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron
All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. — Peter Carey
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. — Annie Proulx
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. — Unknown Author
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding
There is no method except yourself. — Harold Bloom
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.… — Annie Dillard

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