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Crafts Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
- Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.…
- My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet…
- There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with…
- Never confuse movement with action.
- All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right.…
- I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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- A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict
- As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft. — Justin Bieber
- The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto di Bondone
- If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. — Anthony Bourdain
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- Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All… — Richard Branson
- Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere
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