Quotes about Craft
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
- John Updike
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- William Faulkner
In accusing me of being a damnable sinner, you are cutting your own throat, Satan. You are reminding me of God's fatherly goodness toward me, that He so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. In calling me a sinner, Satan, you really comfort me above measure." With such heavenly cunning we are to meet the devil's craft and put from us the memory of sin.
- Martin Luther
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
- Octavia Butler
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.
- Exodus 35:33
Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.
- Daniel 8:25
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
- Samuel Beckett
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
- Cicero
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
- Bill Walsh
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
- William Saroyan
Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
- Wayne Dyer