Quotes About Craft

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

The motive for writing serious literature is to write serious literature. You want to rebel against society? I'll tell you how to do it - write well .

I would quit while you're ahead. Really. It's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

When knitting for a loved one, put a kiss in every stitch! —Nicky Epstein, designer and author

When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I've even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.

When you put beads in your knitting, you are really putting bits of light in your knitting. The gleam and color-play of beads add a whole other dimension that could be demure or outrageous, as you please. Your choice of beads and yarn uniquely expresses your personality. —Sivia Harding, designer and teacher

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations." —Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN

INK-STAINED WRETCH

I'm sure every author has their own process.

I've avoided success artfully.

The scribbler's life is never done.

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft.

Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.