Workshops Quotes

129 quotes by 121 authors

Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about style and language… — Judith Barrington
The world is God's workshop for making men in. — Henry Ward Beecher
An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop. — John Bunyan
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from… — Dennis Lehane
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue… — Garth Stein
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living. — Cheryl Strayed
If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work… — Ray Walston
You don't teach information in a writing workshop. — Tobias Wolff
I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I… — Tobias Wolff
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor… — Peter Coyote
Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King. — Keith David
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in… — Alice Hamilton
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but… — Amanda Hocking
There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a… — Charlie Haden
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place. — Famke Janssen
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the… — Bharati Mukherjee
It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are… — Stan Dale
My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me… — Sue Thoele
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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