Crafts Quotes

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

Art without heart is craft.

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

Craft against craft makes no living.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

Remarks aren't literature.

There is no method except yourself.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.