Crafts Quotes
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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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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
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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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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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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
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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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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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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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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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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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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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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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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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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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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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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
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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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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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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.
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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.
