Quotes About Craftsmanship

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

A good title is a work of a genius!

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.