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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...

—Criss Jami

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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...

—Abigail George

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It’s as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

—Elinor Fuchs

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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

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In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said “It is the trade entering his body.

—Annie Dillard

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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

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No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that...

—William Goldman

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[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,...

—Francine Prose

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

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is...

—Blake Bailey

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I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be...

—George R.R.

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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...

—Noël Coward

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[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...

—Bernard Leach

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Lineation can make your break your poems.

—Katerina Stoykova

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Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

—Vincenzo Cerami

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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...

—Derek Landy

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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...

—Ken Kesey

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The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

—Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies…

—Emily Dickinson

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There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

—Patrick Rothfuss

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For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

—David Bayles

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Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it’s there inside...

—Maura Madden

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The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.”(A Qualified Farewell)

—Raymond Chandler

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At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have to put in. But somewhere along your prison sentence, you come to see...

—Jarod Kintz

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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...

—P.D. James

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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...

—Ann Marie Frohoff

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I don’t want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world… I can’t, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

—Diane Lane

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I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)… ‘I spoke to three scholars,’ [the character says...

—Roman Payne

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[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...

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn’t need much – a...

—Maura Madden

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

—Stephen King

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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

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At the heart of the novelist’s craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.

—Orhan Pamuk

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

—Anthony Liccione

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I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission,...

—Elizabeth E.

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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.

—Roman Payne

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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.

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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...

—Katherine Anne

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This is the essence of Rembrandt’s advice to Van Hoogstraten: The authentic craft develops naturally from one’s own experience. So, it seems reasonable to suggest that the search should not be for the lost secrets,...

—Tad Spurgeon

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Masters and highly successful people are in a romantic relationships with their work

—Desmond Oshifeso

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I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

—Neil Gaiman

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The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did’st by my side remain,Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,Who thee abroad exposed to public view,Made thee in...

—Anne Bradstreet

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

—Edmond Mbiaka

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

—Stephanie Skeem

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

—Muriel Rukeyser

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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.

—Susan Grieshaber

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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.

—Francis of

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Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me, not with apples and flagons, but with wit and grace, humor and intense...

—Markham Shaw

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Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what...

—Alain de Botton

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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

—Jane Austen

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