Quotes About Craft

Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

I just want the business to continue to grow and for our brand to become one of the most respected household names in craft, both in the U.K. and around the world.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

I'd be lying if I said that any part of writing is easy for me, but I have always found that setting comes more naturally to me than, say, writing action scenes.

There are a lot of elements when you're writing, or when I'm writing, that are sitting in the back of your mind. I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way.

And 'tis a pretty toy to be a poet.

bir yazar?n edebiyat okumas?n?n bir at bak?c?s?n?n at pisli?iyle u?ra?mas?ndan farks?zd?r (...)

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

A most extraordinary device for catching dragon-flies is used by the children of the province of Kii. They get a long hair, - a woman's hair, - and attach a very small pebble to each end of it, so as to form a miniature "bolas"; and this they sling high into the air. A dragon-fly pounces upon the passing object; but the moment that he seizes it, the hair twists round his body, and the weight of the pebbles brings him to the ground.

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very--it's like being a shoemaker. You know, shoemakers stick to your last and you stay there working over your last, and it's pretty drudgy in a lot of ways.

If there are spells, they have a right to weave.

Patience is always the last ingredient in any spell, the last part in any machine, what ever your original blue prints say.

Writing is a family trade like anything else: you are more entitled to the profession if your ancestors have already set up shop.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm.

Don't have stories; have sentences.