Craft Quotes

Embrace your journey and those who come across your path. Be gracious in your endeavors. Focus on your craft. Those who support your dreams now and feel your sincere humility and gratitude will be there 20, 30, 40 years from now, padding your old bones and time worn, weary soul.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. (Morning after)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

~ Anthony Liccione

Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.

~ Seema Brain Openers

Cooking like a Michelin star chef without a recipe requires high intuition but only a little skill, a lot of imagination, and willingness to be curious and innovative. Kitchen to me is one of the art studios, but here only creating new dishes and drinks. Creativity is not just a job position or function but it is the attitude to life. From the office to kitchen or streets, anything, anytime should able to move you, inspire you, touch your emotions and others. After all Once you love what you do, you will eventually become a master of it, the only way to master of something be real with it.

~ Baris Gencel

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

~ Unarine Ramaru

[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that the job of the author is to show, not tell. Needless to say, many great novelists combine dramatic showing with long sections of the flat-out authorial narration that is, I guess, what is meant by telling. And the warning against telling leads to a confusion that causes novice writers to think that everything should be acted out -- don't tell us a character is happy, show us how she screams yay and jumps up and down for joy -- when in fact the responsibility of showing should be assumed by the energetic and specific use of language.

~ Francine Prose

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)

~ John Gardner

Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages,Maybe afraid of being bitten.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.

~ James Jean-Pierre

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

~ Van Wyck Brooks

Construct your life plans before satan attempts to destruct you with his death plots. I know this for sure; he is not in to heal! He just came to kill, to steal and destroy! Satan is not wise, it is only crafty!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong.---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam

~ Stephanie Skeem

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that o

~ William Faulkner

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.

~ Hanna Abi Akl

The key is in the craft.

~ A.d. Posey

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

~ Johnny Rich

An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become that character you’re writing about to be able to live and breathe what they do.

~ Mischa Temaul

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story, but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

~ Michael J. Kannengieser

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

~ Umberto Eco

What about his style? asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...What was he like as a person? asked Dalgliesh.Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity.A typical writer, in fact? suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.

~ P.d. James

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

~ Will Advise

Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The depth of your art is subject to originality, Your own authentic style.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing.

~ Victor Lavalle

[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi's belief was that the good artist of craftsman has no personal pride because in his soul he knows that any prowess he shows is evidence of that Other Power. Therefore what Yanagi says is 'Take heed of the humble, be what you are by birthright, there is no room for arrogance'.

~ Bernard Leach

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

~ John Geddes

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.

~ Abigail George

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

~ Michael J. Kannengieser

Be so good with your craft to the point that you would no longer have to beg for opportunities.

~ Hafiz

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.

~ Kirtida Gautam

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.

~ Lauren Hammond

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

~ Stephen King