Quotes About Craft

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.

I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don't you?" - author Mark Merlis

If I've learned anything it's that writing is an arduous but joyful craft. It calls upon hidden resources & the process is its own reward.

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

First draft, use your heart. Revision, use your head

A writer has only three tools: language, experience and imagination.

It's very hard to write humor.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

I can fly low atmosphere craft but nobody ever thought it was remotely rational to give murderbots the modules on piloting transports.

the story, the part that was above water, without the writer voicing it. Writing was a craft, and it had rules, which, if they had to be reduced to a single concept, dictated that the writer be genuine.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write .

Poetry is an art of economy.