Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. — Demetri Martin
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged… — Eoin Colfer
Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for… — Anne Rice
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows… — Ellen Hopkins
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest… — Brennan Manning
Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are… — Dean Koontz
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when… — Lois Duncan
Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… — Flannery O'Connor
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. — Gerald Durrell
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the… — Stephen King
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… — Mark Twain
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs… — Dylan Thomas
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit… — Robin McKinley
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in… — Robert E. Howard
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there… — Jimmy Buffett
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared… — Anne Sexton
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. — Dorothy Allison
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and… — Beryl Markham
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing
We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She… — Lynsay Sands
What I don't write is as important as what I write. — Jamaica Kincaid
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are… — Hayao Miyazaki

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