Quotes About Craft

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

Writers of literature make very little money.

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

undid my knitting. All those little knots that you make one after another, row by row, to knit a sock, I undid them. It's easy. Take the needles out, a little tug and they just fall apart. One after another, row by row. I undid the extra heel and then I just kept going. The foot, the first heel, the ribbing of the leg. All those loops unraveling themselves as you pull the wool. Then there was nothing left to unravel, only a pile of crinkled blue wool in my lap.

Dianne Jacob

submarine to the operational area. From there, it was to be launched from its mother sub with sixteen fully loaded Navy SEALs. It had a speed of eight knots and a range of 125 nautical miles. The original program called for six of these craft. Because of technical issues and massive cost overruns, the program was canceled. Only two of the craft were built and one of those sank in deep-ocean waters

How memory conspires with objects of human craft, pressing time flat, inciting a tender reminiscence.

Here's a writing craft tool that you can remove from your toolbox and throw away: description. It's the stuff that most readers skim. Even when deftly done using the five senses it's a lead weight. It isn't needed anymore.

If literature is humanity at its absolute best, striving after the hard truths, straining to shed the egos that cripple nonliterary relationships, then books, the actual objects of books, are the physical expressions of the struggle to craft a better humanity. Entering the culture of books, even the culture of a single book--and every book is the culture of its audience--makes the world feel a little better, a little more true and welcoming.