Quotes About Craft

The entire plan was there in shimmering hot pink ink. "It looks like a My Little Pony murder plot," Mary Alice said. "Jesus, is that glitter?" "I like it," Natalie said loyally. "I find it hard to take us seriously as agents of vengeance when our plot looks like a kindergarten craft project.

I can't sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

By the work one knows the workman.

Real acting is never personal.

Writing is writing

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

But if you're working on your craft every day on your own, with steady discipline and love, then you are already for real as a creator, and you don't need to pay anybody to affirm that for you.

Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. Most of it is not like fairy dust in the least.

Intracranial jewelry-making! What a cool job! That's basically what we all do--all of us who spend our days making and doing interesting things for no particularly rational reason.

Pero si pudiera hacerme unos pantalones con la hierba de este jardín lo haría

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress, and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.

A good thief is always a great liar. It's part of the skill set, the tools, the craft. And at that moment, Kat thought it was probably a very good thing she'd walked away from the life, because when she said, "No," Hale just smiled wider.

Ä°yi bir h?rs?z her zaman iyi bir yalanc?d?r. Bu sahip olunmas? gereken yeteneklerden ve zanaat?n vazgeçilmez hünerlerinden biridir. (syf. 21)

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.