Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. — Geoffrey Chaucer
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life stand still here. — Virginia Woolf
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. — Ezra Pound
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. — John Steinbeck
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. — Joss Whedon
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… — Alberto Manguel
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure… — Barbara Kingsolver
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.… — Aristotle
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that… — Alberto Manguel
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff
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.… — Ernest Hemingway
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small… — Zelda Fitzgerald
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. — W. Somerset Maugham
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… — Mark Twain
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want… — Marilyn Monroe
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… — Marisha Pessl
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in… — George Steiner
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if… — Michael Ondaatje

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