Quotes About Craft

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

Escribir bien cuesta. Por escribir bien entiendo decir con la máxima simplicidad las cosas esenciales.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Kaikessa kirjoittamisessa on tietenkin kaksi puolta: totta kai täytyy olla jotain mistä kirjoittaa, mutta täytyy myös osata kirjoittaa.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

That seemed to be the way of the world these days; get a few basic details of an event or incident, then craft a narrative around it. It was not about spreading information, but getting clicks and attention.

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

Read, Write, Edit, Repeat

Art with a big A makes professionals uneasy. All art is one, and there is no difference in the mystery of the craft, only in the hand and eye of the craftsman.

He's never fired a gun in his life," Palamedes said. "He abhors weapons." As Palamedes spoke,the group could see Shakespeare put the tonbogiri to his shoulder,then jerk three times. Two of the attacking vimanas spun out of control,both of them crashing into two more. The flour flaming craft spiraled into the sea. "But then he's always been full of surprises," Palamedes added.

And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

Every good author has a trick, a great and mighty trick.

Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

One is a writer, or one is not.

My art and profession is to live.

This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.

On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people," the novelist and essayist Thomas Mann complained. "When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral," said Carl Hiaasen—and he writes comic novels.