Quotes About Craftsmanship

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.

Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

I will not call myself a perfectionist, but I love to present things with my best effort.

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

Creativity is magic in the making.