Quotes About Craft

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.

I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.

T]he truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood.

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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

ALL ANIMALS PERFORM actions and most do little else. A great many also make artefacts

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

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

Se alguém quer tomar-se mestre em alguma arte, deve ter a vida inteira devotada a ela, ou pelo menos relacionada com ela. A própria pessoa se toma um instrumento para a prática da arte e deve ser conservada em condições adequadas, de acordo com as funções específicas que tem a desempenhar.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.