Quotes About Craft

More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

He was doing journalism in order to eat, which is a very good way of learning journalism. Probably the only real way, come to think of it.

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

I'm a journeyman actor.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

That's the beauty of being an actor. You're kind of a journeyman.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

It's a challenge each and every day to just be the best that you can be at your craft.

Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

It's a beautiful thing when the young guys grew up off you, or they embrace you and respect your craft. They always call for me like 'Kiss, this is going to solidify me to get a joint with you.' That makes you feel proud as an artist.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

I have to learn to knit.

I don't know how to knit.