Quotes About Craft

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

I'm an actor more than anything else.

I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Writing doesn't get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.

All work nourishes the soul of your creative imagination. And all work increases your understanding of your craft. Sometimes a work takes a flower, sometimes it merely enriches the soil. And sometimes the seed of an idea, long abandoned and even forgotten, emerges suddenly in a place where it was least expected. And sometimes the blooms that it produces are the most beautiful of al.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.

And elliptically, they talked about their work. They

Beginning writers tend to think that craft is their enemy. As long as they believe that, they will remain beginners, no matter how many years they write.

Each evening, students performed in the common room. The inn provided an opportunity for aspiring minstrels to practice their craft in a real situation, and to earn coppers and silvers for tuition at the same time.

Por mi parte, quería ahora ver cómo era el mundo donde la razón y las leyes de la física obligaban a un orden riguroso e inevitable, donde fabular no era una necesidad sino un oficio de pocos, abocados a examinar con pausa el rigor de los afectos y del mundo.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

She had a kind of internal reserve, an astonishing capacity for self-comfort, and she handled solitude more effectively than almost anyone I knew. She could spend whole days by herself — painting, knitting, reading; losing herself in art and craft and intellect.