Quotes About Craft

Dramatic conquests often lead to startling serendipities: the most momentous Muslim acquisition at Talas was not territory or silk, but a commodity at once prosaic and precious. Among the Chinese prisoners taken at Talas were papermakers, who soon spread their wondrous craft into the Islamic world, and then to Europe, changing forever human culture and the course of history.

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

Taming the matter is the basic thing for creating visual art.

Writers possess only four tools: research, experience, empathy, and imagination. Fortunately, whole worlds can be built from them.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.