Crafts Quotes - Page 30

• The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . The subject matter is 'relatable,' as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . . Indeed, if you're looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.

  Blake Bailey

  Book, Writing, Men

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• America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.

  Nancy Johnson

  Wine, Beer, America

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• As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

  Peter Thiel

  Competition, Plans

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.47, Crown Business

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• Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

  Richard Stallman

  Programming

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• I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.

  Ami Vitale

  Artist, Thinking, Important

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• And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Jobs, Writing, World

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• Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quality

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• Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

  Jenson Button

  Opportunity, Men, Race

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• I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

  Amy Sedaris

  Book, Mosaics, Stuff

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Littles, Made, Needed

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Giving Up, Writing, Hands

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!

  Robert Loveman

  Gratitude, Morning, Sunset

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• The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west...

  Robert Loveman

  Morning, Home, Sunset

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• Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Causes, Becoming

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.12, Knickerbocker Classics

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• The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Thinking, Talking, Weather

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.109, BookBaby

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• There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

  Joyce Brothers

  Thinking, Giving, Sailing

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• At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Men, People, Together

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• We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

  Ross Macdonald

  Broken, Wish, Locks

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

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• I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

  James Dickey

  Mean, Thinking, Honor

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• All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

  James Cromwell

  Mother, Father, Inspiration

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• You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as we continue to throw away rockets and space crafts, we will never truly have access to space.

  Elon Musk

  Space, Long, Important

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• The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Writing, Mind

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Practice, People, What If

  "Interview with Leslie Nielsen Actor and Comedian". AudiologyOnline Interview, www.audiologyonline.com. December 9, 2002.

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• I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

  Kathy Bates

  Life Changing, Years, Recognition

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