Quotes About Craft

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

Baldacci has crafted another terrific tale with two great protagonists. Just when the story line seems to veer into familiar areas, Baldacci steers it into another shocking direction. This is the best book yet in the series."—Associated

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

My lord, will you be true? Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault: Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit Is plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case? Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow? Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.

Richard had embodied the virtues which men admire in the lion, but there is no animal in nature that combines the contradictory qualities of John. He united the ruthlessness of a hardened warrior with the craft and subtlety of a Machiavellian.

he should have the craft to appear absent when close at hand, and within striking distance when a long way off;

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

De alguna manera, entre ellos descubrieron cómo cortar la grasa sin sacrificar nada del sabor de mi prosa.

educated on the craft. If this is the first book you have read on the craft,

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

We must all start with the believable. That is the essence of our craft. All drama, all comedy, all artistry stems from the believable, which gives us as solid a rock as anyone could ask from which to seek humor.

All knitterly creation stems from one simple element: yarn. It is the baker's flour, the jeweler's gold, the gardener's soil. Yarn is creation, consolation, and chaos all spun together into one perfect ball.

No, no es fácil escribir. Es duro como partir rocas. Pero saltan chispas y astillas como aceros pulidos.

Writing is the enjoyable part of writing. It's all the rest that drives you mad.