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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
Art without heart is craft.
I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.
If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.
My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.
I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.
I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
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.
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.
Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.
I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.
As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
