Quotes About Craft

Roy Peter Clark

That's the writing tool: use passive verbs to call attention to the receiver of the action.

The ability to read, society tells us, contributes to success in education, employment, and citizenship. Reading is a democratic craft. Writing, in contrast, is considered a fine art.

Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark

I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to write. Let your writing flow early. You can reach for a tool later. •

Ben Yagoda's fine book When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It.

Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed masters.

I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's work.

hippo. Like something that basks, anyway. Even her knitting is going better than

A Log Cabin quilt is a thing every young woman should have before marriage, as it means the home; and there is always a red square at the centre, which means the hearth fire.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

A lot of acting is private time.

There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it.

in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.