Quotes About Craft

When you use craft to leave the virtual world of the screen & instead begin to work in more complex ways with the physical world around you, you're living truer to your primal potential. Craft makes us human, & in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less hands-on activities.

Writing good humor requires a considerable amount of imagination and a great deal of discipline.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

La novela se hace con trabajo, el cuento con inspiración.

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

Acting is happy agony.

Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.

In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I've learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could've on my own.