Quotes About Craftsmanship

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.