Quotes about Craft

But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

When I look for help in developing my pastoral craft and nurturing my pastoral vocation, the one century that has the least to commend it is the twentieth. Has any century been so fascinated with gimmickry, so surfeited with fads, so addicted to nostrums, so unaware of God, so out of touch with the underground spiritual streams which water eternal life?

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

A pro views her work as craft, not art. Not because she believes art is devoid of a mystical dimension. On the contrary. She understands that all creative endeavor is holy, but she doesn't dwell on it. She knows if she thinks about that too much, it will paralyze her. So she concentrates on technique. The professional masters how, and leaves what and why to the gods.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

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

She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.