Quotes About Crafting

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.

The first things I made were absolute pig's ears. I didn't understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.

Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.

For Christmas our grandmother would give us this huge box every year of just art supplies, construction paper, water colors, charcoals, crayons, color pencils.

I'm not a celebrity, but when I walk into Hobbycraft and someone comes up to me to tell me how great one of our products is, it's a bit of a surreal experience.

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender.

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on. We make ourselves and in so doing are the gods of the small universe of self and the large world of repercussions.

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.

It's just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.

We could buy a sewing machine and share it," Charlene said. "We could buy cloth and spools of thread and paper patterns and spend pleasant winter evenings dressmaking together. Perhaps by the soft light from beautiful glass oil lamps. We could sit in a pool of golden light from the beautiful glass oil lamps and our silver needles would glimmer and flash as we bowed our heads to the simple yet honest work." But

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

All writing is rewriting.

Crafting something unique and logical requires trust and mutual collaboration.

After having the 4-5 wraps, you are now done with wrapping around the bead, so you should now finish on the sides.