Quotes About Craft

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

Being on set for me is my happiest time.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

I care about actors, and I understand them in a very personal way. I'm not saying every writer has to do that, but in my case, it's been helpful. I can put myself into the scene and think, 'What would it be like to act this?' Any writer who's really good probably does that to some extent.

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboreth at the law or at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling.

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded.

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboreth at the law or at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. If he be a merchant, he may continually seek better goods that can be purchased at lower prices.

To write a story that works, that moves the reader, is difficult, and most of us can't do it. Even among those who have done it, it mostly can't be done. And it can't be done from a position of total control, of flawless mastery, of simply having an intention and then knowingly executing it. There's intuition involved, and stretching—trying things that are at the limit of our abilities.

There's no skill and no grace to it, but you