Crafts Quotes
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
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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?
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
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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.
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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.
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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
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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.
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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.
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Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.
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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.
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I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
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I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."
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A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
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Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
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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.
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If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
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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.
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We want someone to bring us the news.
