Quotes About Craftsmanship

Grandpa Keith made shoes for Adam Faith and George Best. I was dazzled by such people. As a teenager, I was haunted by the idea of people living glamorously beyond my provincial horizons.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off, so I don't feel guilty devouring one.

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm a writer-rewriter. I can't move on until I feel like it's presentable.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

The only kind of people who pursue stop-motion as a career are people who are absolutely in love with the medium.

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

I've always thought, since the beginning of my career, that it was better to take your time and write some good stuff and then go in and not be pushed or forced into just crankin' stuff out, whether it was great or not.

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

As a former player, I have a real appreciation for a guy like Aaron Rodgers and how much time he puts into his craft and how good he is doing it.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.