Quotes about Craft

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

I made it on the bevel.

Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but they have substance and craft and really beautiful performances.

Women's creativity is called craft and is sold cheap; when men create, the result is called art and is costly, like Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to a Miami art gallery wall with a price tag of US$120,000.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

flash of silver as the craft streaked laterally

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least to commend it is the twentieth. Has any century been so fascinated with gimmickry, so surfeited with fads, so addicted to nostrums, so unaware of God, so out of touch with the underground spiritual streams which water eternal life?