Crafts Quotes

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

You must render: never report.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Fill the moment and find variety.

I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Just make sure you're staying true to yourself, and do what you think is good in that craft or field [of yours] and then let everything else fall where it falls.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

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

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.