Quotes about Craft
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
- Elizabeth George
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
- Bill Walsh
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
- Aldous Huxley
Grandma quilts have love in every stitch.
- Anonymous
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
- Frank Herbert
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Get the chisel out and start making something real. Anything else is just a distraction.
- Jason Fried
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
- Aldous Huxley
Isn't composing music akin to film direction?
- Ilaiyaraaja
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
- St. John Chrysostom
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
- Gia Coppola