Quotes about Craftsmanship

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

The preserver of abundance is excellence.

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

CiteÅŸte, citeÅŸte, citeÅŸte. CiteÅŸte totul — gunoi, clasicii, r?ii ÅŸi bunii, ÅŸi vezi cum scriu. La fel ca un tâmplar care lucreaz? ca ucenic ÅŸi îÅŸi studiaz? maestrul. CiteÅŸte! Vei absorbi asta. Apoi scrie. Dac? ai scris ceva bun, vei afla. Dac? nu, arunc? ce-ai scris pe fereastr?.