Crafts Quotes
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
Tony Kushner -
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
William Tyndale
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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.
Kalup Linzy -
The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.
William Butler Yeats -
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
Eudora Welty -
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.
David B. Coe -
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare -
I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
Gabriel Campisi
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
William H. Gass -
I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."
William H. Macy -
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
David Starkey -
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.
Wendy Wasserstein -
Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
William Shakespeare -
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
Sean Lennon
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A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
Wolfgang Puck -
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
Joshua Foer -
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
William Stafford -
Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.
H. W. Janson -
I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
LL Cool J -
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
William Kennedy
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We want someone to bring us the news.
William Gaddis -
Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.
William Mapother -
There's nothing personal in it THE SKRIKER. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.
Caryl Churchill -
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
Tommy Cooper