Quotes About Craft

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.

A má literatura é a literatura em estado puro, intocada por distrações como estilo, invenção, graça ou significado, reduzida apenas ao ímpeto de escrever.

I am a poet. Words are my currency.

How on earth does she make the English language float and float?

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Please give me a genuine feedback that I get better on my craft!

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

If you look at language merely as craft you are committing lèse-majesté towards your own sacred tools. You've got to have the proper respect—you've got to feel awed in its presence (see, I say "awed," not "sacred").

Little plots and stories, acted out and screened, can't possibly be called cinema. They have nothing whatever to do with cinema. A cinematographic work is above all a work which would not be possible in any other art form. In other words. it can be created by means of cinema, and cinema alone

What does one ever ask an author except: "How?" And the answer, as Less well knows, is obvious: "Beats me!

Boredom is essential for writers. It is the only time they get to write.

Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

Maybe knitting is like writing a story-- an act of discovery. But that seems unlikely, given the very precise directions.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

One can use standard principles and textbooks in educating people for law, medicine, architecture, chemistry or almost any other profession—but not for the theater. For, in most professions, every practitioner uses the same tools and techniques, while the actor's chief instrument is himself. And since no two persons are alike, no universal rule is applicable to any two actors in exactly the same way.

What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling?… Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive—pleasure, love—can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift us out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

There is no genius. There is only the work. There is no art. There is only the craft.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.