Quotes About Craft

As you go if you are like me and want to further hone in on what you already know from your life while learning new tricks and improving your craft that is where you will become even more successful in anything you do

Mastering the art of words takes place when you establish your first heartbeat

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

Give yourself permission to be bad. Write first, polish later.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

In my aircar," said the old man, motioning Arthur to get into the craft which had settled silently next to them. "We are going deep into the bowels of the planet where even now our race is being revived from its five-million-year slumber.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

For a director, each work he completes is like a whole lifetime. I have lived many whole lifetimes with the films I have made, and I have experienced a different life-style with each one as well.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

So much had been invested in craft, in externalization, in looking for something solid out there that would fill the void, create a sense of flight, of getting out of the oppression of self. We don't want to do it; we want to be it.

It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)

There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.