Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it. — Leonard Michaels
There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle. — Leonard Michaels
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… — Ernest Hemingway
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. — Leonard Michaels
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is… — Unknown Author
Write from what you know into what you don't know. — Grace Paley
My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems. — Doris Grumbach
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was… — Robin Williams
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Unknown Author
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun
The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. — Elizabeth Bowen
It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up. — Jacqueline Briskin
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing… — Jeffrey Carver
Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. — Stephen King
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — Katherine Anne Porter
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and… — Madison Smartt Bell
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't… — William Zinsser
I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to… — John Petrucci

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