Quotes About Craftsmanship

It took him one minute to write. Bill stood over him, watching. "I don't know how you do that," he said. "Like the words are already inside the pen." "It's just what's in your brain," Charley said. "The way the words come to you naturally is the best way to put them down." Bill said, "The things in my head don't come in words.

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.

If you separate the writing process into two stages, you can exploit these opposing muscles one at a time: first be loose and accepting as you do fast early writing; then be critically toughminded as you revise what you have produced. What you'll discover is that these two skills used alternately don't undermine each other at all, they enhance each other.

Most people start shaping and revising what they have written once they get one pretty good idea. "Yes that's it, now I've figured out what I want to say." That's terrible. You shouldn't start revising till you have more good stuff than you can use. (And it won't take long to get it if you make your early writing into a free brainstorming session.) That way you'll have to be critical and throw away genuinely good stuff just to trim your piece down to the right length.

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

And make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.

You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.

Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners at its four legs.

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.

Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

And on the lampstand there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

The wick trimmers and their trays must be of pure gold.

The lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.

Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.