Quotes About Craft

back on the other, pivoting the neat craft in her own length. Then both

it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Joinery, it now occurs to me, must be the foundation of all craft. You put two things together to make something else, to accomplish some purpose; the better they fit, or work together, the greater the pleasure from the making.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

Sophistication is the craft of subtlety that goes noticed.

wheelwright, the person who makes a wooden wheel.

No one will ever write in just the way that you do, or in just the way that anyone else does. Because of this fact, there is no real competition between writers. What appears to be competition is actually nothing more than jealousy and gossip. Writing is a matter strictly of developing oneself. You compete only with yourself. You develop yourself by writing.

In the long run, he thought, the new, fey Perceval with so many ancient souls behind her eyes might even be a match for Cynric the Sorceress, in wisdom if not in craft.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se requiere mucha inteligencia para disfrazar de artificio las propias emociones" (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Quien estimula la reflexión es un artesano de la sabiduría.

I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.

Once I started rapping, I had to start dancing more. I had to really use my craft, and take everything I did for fun and put it into my professional shows.

One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.

I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.

You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.