Quotes About Craft

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

His history will henceforth be known as I craft it. Is this not the manner in which all history is recorded? It is written, and it is so.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Writers take words seriously—perhaps the last professional class that does—and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Create before you consume.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Beer is an improvement on water itself.