Crafts Quotes
- Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. — David Mamet
- There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver
- Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going? — Constantin Stanislavski
- I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think… — Harold Brodkey
- And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.… — Katherine Anne Porter
- Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be… — Pearl S. Buck
- Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people. — Unknown Author
- To make your unknown known - that's the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe
- Writing means revealing oneself to excess. — Franz Kafka
- If you're looking for messages, try Western Union. — Ernest Hemingway
- Poets are interested mostly in death and commas. — Carolyn Kizer
- The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly
- At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. — Richard Ford
- The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville
- That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison
- I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide
- You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in. — Samuel Goldwyn
- Always make room for the unexpected in yourself. — Steve Martin
- You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write. — Lucinda Williams
- If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth