Quotes About Craft

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Then said the giant, Thou practices the craft of a kidnapper. Thou gatherest up woman and children and carriest them into a strange country, to the weakening of my master's kingdom. But now Great-Heart replied, I am a servant of the God of Heaven; my business is to persuade sinners of repentance. I am commanded to do my endeavor to turn men, women and children, fro darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.

I find that men as high as trees will write, dialogue-wise yet no man doth them slight. For writing so: Indeed if they abuse, truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use. To that intent; but yet let truth be free, to make her salleys upon Thee, and Me. Which way it pleases God: For who knows how, Better than he that taught us first to Plough. To guide our Mind and Pens for his Design? And he makes base things usher in Divine.

Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research.

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

Acting is learnt, not taught.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

I think all actors are professional liars.

Art lies by its own artifice.

I know my limitations as an actor.