Craft Quotes
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"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."
"Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft."
"If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it."
"Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all."
"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies..."
"When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!"
"The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go on to accept any activity or event that comes into the world, you must weigh its Values, examine the Virtues, listen to Views and then you give your Verdict. Satan is not wise; he is just crafty!"
"The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged."
"Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands."
"I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art."
"Lineation can make your break your poems."
"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
"If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace."
"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.", Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)"
"When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability."
"It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done."
"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?", December 31, 1989)]"
"I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper."
"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we"
"Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety features of this aircraft. It has an engine, to make us go, and wings, to keep us in the air. There are seatbelts, which won't do you an awful lot of good if we fly into the side of a mountain."
Derek Landy, The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant
"Each book which so far is written is filled with a new thoughts... new images... new arguments... new discussions."
"I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities — as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place,because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them."
"He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
"In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators."
"I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves."
"Any form of art can be known only in deep silence, to be in silence is to be receptive - No sooner you become receptive, you become woman, it has nothing to do with gender, its a quality, which is why woman is epitome of Receptivity!"
"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."
"When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. ("Morning after")"
"The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world."
"Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft."
"True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations."
"Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages,Maybe afraid of being bitten."
"Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you."
"Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold."
Israelmore Ayivor, Mine Your Gold: How to Dig Up and Optimize Your Hidden Greatness
"A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it."
"[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."
"The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder."
"Masters and highly successful people are in a romantic relationships with their work"
"Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background."
"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!"
"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."
"Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam"
"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."
"The key is in the craft."
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