Quotes About Craftsmanship

Cherokee men were active traders. They traded silver ornaments they had crafted, as well as deerskins and beaver pelts, with other tribes and European traders. A man could become wealthy, but if he did he had to deal with the disapproval of others in the clan and town who were not as well-off. They might scorn his wealth, and the shamans might wish him ill.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them." ? Raymond Chandler

Hemingway says somewhere that the good writer competes only with the dead.

Intentan ser honestos, pero la honestidad es un arte. El mal escritor es deshonesto sin saberlo, y el escritor más o menos bueno puede que sea deshonesto porque no sabe sobre qué ser honesto.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.

But we knew that when one goes into a shop and buys a cake one gets nothing but a cake, which may be very good, but is only a cake; whereas if one goes into the kitchen and makes a cake because some people one respects and probably likes are coming to eat at one's table, one is striking a low note on a scale that is struck higher up by Beethoven and Mozart.

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...

these were days when people still made things and used machines, instead of the opposite).

There are better and worse ditch diggers and garbage collectors. People who work in industry know that no matter how apparently mindless a job is, the job can still be done better or worse, with significant economic consequences.

Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality.

We are the instruments more than the author of our work

Whole plots can be stitched up while we sew. As artists, we can very literally reap what we sew.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made," he said. "Even after you eat it, it stays with you—always." I

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made," he said. "Even after you eat it, it stays with you—always.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.