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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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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Muscle is good, but craft is better
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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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I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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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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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
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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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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
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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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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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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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A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
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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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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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My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
