Quotes About Craftsmanship

Everybody wants to make better music.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean

You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Burrell Smith, the designer of the Macintosh computer, said it as well as anyone in one of the sessions at the first Hacker Conference: "Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

They don't make it as well as they did in the past!0

The artisans are creatures of artifice; very shallow individuals.

If they wanted a half-inch, you have to be able to give them a half-inch. I mean, not an inch, not two inches. Those holes must line up exactly or they won't make their iron. And when you swing, you have to swing real smooth. You can't have your iron swinging back and forth, oscillating. If you do this, they'll refuse to work with you, because their life is at stake.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.