Crafts Quotes

• We want someone to bring us the news.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Want
  • News
  • Crafts

• 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
  • Universe
  • Language
  • Fiction

• Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Style
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Way
  • Found
  • Might

• I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Morning

• Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

  

  William Kennedy
  • Interesting
  • Firsts
  • Crafts

• Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Listening
  • Actors
  • Reacting

• 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
  • People
  • Writing
  • Damage

• 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
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Careers

• How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Important
  • Complicated
  • Crafts

• I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

  

  Domenica Costa
  • Perfect
  • Sound
  • Come Up

• Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tradition
  • Critics
  • Demand

• You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Art
  • Crafts

• I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Song
  • Feels
  • Strange

• Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.

  

  Caridad Svich
  • Energy
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  

  Erik Adigard
  • Design
  • Philosophy
  • Storytelling

• I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Film

• Art is craft, not inspiration.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Art
  • Crafts

• Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Effort
  • Design

• Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Real
  • Order
  • Crafts

• One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Reason

• You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • People
  • Successful
  • Research

• And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Kind
  • inspirational
  • Looks

• The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Acting

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