Crafts Quotes
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If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
David O. Russell
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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
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Muscle is good, but craft is better
Wace
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I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."
William H. Macy
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
H. W. Janson
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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
William Tyndale
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
William Stafford
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I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
Gabriel Campisi
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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.
Wendy Wasserstein
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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
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
William H. Gass
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Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.
William Kennedy
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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
William Shakespeare
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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.
LL Cool J
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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.
David B. Coe
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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.
Gary Lutz
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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.
David Starkey
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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.
Tommy Cooper
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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.
William Mapother
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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.
Sean Lennon
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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