Quotes About Craft

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

They know a million tricks, those novelists.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...

The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

Don't romanticize your vocation. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

The dark obscurity into which her career then lapsed reflects her staunchly independent political stances rather than any deficiency of craft or vision.

Though attacked by Wright and virtually ignored by his literary heirs, Hurston's ideas about language and craft undergird many of the most successful contributions to Afro-American literature that followed.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

I can always act.

I love acting.

There is no right in acting.

I'm just an actor.

There is nothing that I don't like about being an actor.