Crafts Quotes

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.

Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

Self-confidence can be crippling.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.

You need to know your craft.

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

Craft your love into everything

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it.

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

There is one story and one story only.

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.