Crafts Quotes - Page 15

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

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

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.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

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.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

There is one story and one story only.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.