Crafts Quotes - Page 18

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

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.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

There is no method except yourself.

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

Remarks aren't literature.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

Craft against craft makes no living.

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.