Crafts Quotes - Page 35

• I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Persistence, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the water now I'll meet three generations of surfers, male and female, everyone sporting a different craft. I started surfing in the 60s and I can tell you it's infinitely more diverse. It might be more crowded but it's also more interesting.

  Tim Winton

  Water, Interesting, Surfing

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

  Michael Ealy

  Successful, People, Done

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting as a living. I really want people to understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  Michael Ealy

  People, Acting, Want

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

  Happiness, Truth, Attitude

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Luck, Taste And Judgment

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sky, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

  John Steinbeck

  People, May, Kind

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

  Herman Melville

  Noble, Melancholy, Touched

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.77, Velvet Element Books

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• There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

  Aristotle

  Blessed, Excellence, Occupation

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• A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Letter to H. H. Rogers, 26 - 28 Apr. 1897

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• In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

  Lauren Groff

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

  Lauren Groff (2012). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.10, Random House

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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• If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

  Federico Fellini

  Silence, Acting, Littles

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• To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Difficult, Be Good

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Mean

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• the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Teacher, Adventure

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• I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Taken, Mean, Secret

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

  Demetri Martin

  Glitter, Herpes, Supplies

  "I'll have a mocha soy latte - with extra glitter, please" by Maura Judkis, www.washingtonpost.com. December 22, 2017.

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• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Language, Typography, Form

  "15 Free Fonts That Harken Back To Vintage Typography" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2014.

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• After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

  Sandra Dallas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quilts

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Dark, Sea

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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