Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. — Richard Wilbur
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu. — William Stafford
There is one story and one story only. — Robert Graves
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you. — Ben Nighthorse Campbell
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that… — Percy Lubbock
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style… — Susan Sontag
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. — Rudyard Kipling
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the… — Frank O'Connor
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness… — Aristotle
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the… — Aristotle
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… — Flannery O'Connor
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy
So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in… — Steve Tesich
Look if you like, but you will have to leap. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary
No time for poetry but exactly what is. — Jack Kerouac
First thought, best thought. — Allen Ginsberg
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster

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