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Crafts Quotes by Mark Twain
- Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- 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…
- A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny…
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- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- 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