Quotes About Craft

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

Conscious craft turned into unconscious routine. When

You fight not to take or break but to make.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

We certainly get a more complete and well-rounded picture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries — at court and in the church — if we bear in mind that music still had much of the character of a craft, and that especially in the court sphere it was marked by a very sharp social inequality between the art producer and the patron.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Vocabulary and grammar are your primary tools. They're most effectively used, even most effectively abused, by people who understand them.

You highbrows writing on movies are nuts! In order to write about movies you must first make them.

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Leave your heart open to Divine guidance, not passively as a leaf upon the river, but as a navigator on that river who may flow with the lovely depth and swiftness of the current yet who also takes responsibility for his own craft.

It's only fabric! Freestyle fabric cutting and sewing is a low-risk endeavor with a strong payoff of personal growth and empower- ment.

Whatever the art or whatever the craft - and make a note of this before you go - talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Members of the Tulu religion are known to truly love their craft. They are always ready welcome to welcome new postulants at any of their temples. Applications may be made during regular business hours. Willingness to help destroy the universe a must." -A Visitor's Guide to Traven, 144th Edition

Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.

After reading The Day After Roswell, however, I concluded that there were huge issues involved that should be in the public domain. How much had we learned from back-engineering the alien craft that had crashed? Was there a possibility of future star wars? Were the American taxpayers aware of what was going on, and the cost involved?

As someone who has long observed the techniques of creating politically acceptable language, and has sometimes been a practitioner of that craft, I would say that the principal difference between the first and the revised draft is in the weasel words.

One of my inside sources opened the window on that one for me when he said: "Gravity travels faster than light." Evidence of a kind of physics we are not taught in school was provided by an exchange program, when in July 1965 twelve courageous U.S. astronauts boarded an Eben (Grey) craft on an exchange visit to the planet Serpo. The trip took 10 months to reach its destination 37 light years distant.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.