Crafts Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

  Adepero Oduye

  Beautiful, Character, Play

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• More than anything, I wanted to make sure that everybody was a pusher of difference. And they had to be able to do it in a communicative way, not esoterically. Because there are a lot of people who push things forward but sometimes only you and two people out of 500 in the room get it, but you want somebody who has mastered their craft so well that an 8-year-old gets it just like an 80-year-old gets it. They get the same visceral feeling.

  Pharrell Williams

  Years, Two, Differences

  Source: theneptunes.org

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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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• There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

  Zac Posen

  New York, Technique, Reason

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• Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

  John L'Heureux

  Character, Interesting, Alcohol

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• Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

  John L'Heureux

  Moving, Space, Doe

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• When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs are alien does not seem quite so farfetched. Serious-minded scientists in astronomy and other disciplines estimate there could be billions of planets in the universe, and millions that could harbor life. If even a few of those planets were occupied by technological civilizations, their ability (if not desire) to explore other worlds, such as ours, must be a possibility.

  Don Berliner

  Light, Discovery, Other Worlds

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• Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part of the American and other governments to discount them as nothing more substantial than mistakes made by naïve individuals. Their performance, observed repeatedly by expert witnesses, remains as far off the scale today as it was in the 1940s.

  Don Berliner

  Mistake, Government, Effort

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• If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's culture-economic, political, personal-will be limited only by what is learned from an open, serious, objective study of the subject.

  Don Berliner

  Impact, Political, Culture

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• The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material.

  Bret Anthony Johnston

  Skills, Voice, Vision

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• I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Differences, People, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

  Common

  Motivational, Eye, Sky

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• Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Writing, Creative

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.12, Zondervan

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• In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Successful, Men

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1931). “The Endless Adventure: An introductory essay on politcs and politicians. From the flight of James II. to the accession of George I. (1688-1714) Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721) Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)”

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• It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.

  Kerry Joyce

  Space, Looks, Rooms

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• A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

  Tristan Jones

  Giving Up, Ocean, Soul

  Tristan Jones (1990). “One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing”, p.26, Sheridan House, Inc.

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