craft

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
8205e97	The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.	muriel-rukeyser inspirational craft writers	Muriel Rukeyser
00cb9b8	"At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that -- the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.	writing learning-by-doing trial-and-error craftsmanship creative-writing craft training writing-process talent	William Faulkner
a6ce768	The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.	writing craft painting creative-process wholeness	Madeleine L'Engle
86472dd	There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.	writing reasons craft why readers writers	Umberto Eco
4ee6e14	Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.	writing victims craft novels	John Irving
c3ba936	"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?" [	limitations writing inventiveness dullness familiarity craft creative-process knowledge	Ken Kesey
1ac0174	"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."	writing work craft trade	Annie Dillard
39cd680	Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them.	literature poetry writing craft skill self-confidence	A.S. Byatt
6145350	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 is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.	craft artist	William Goldman
38729dc	Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.	writing work followers craft readers	Michael J. Kannengieser
193d05b	Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.	writing craft novels	Colm Tóibín
7ff9524	To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.	craft creation	Cormac McCarthy

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

muriel-rukeyser inspirational craft writers

Muriel Rukeyser

00cb9b8

"At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that -- the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.

writing learning-by-doing trial-and-error craftsmanship creative-writing craft training writing-process talent

William Faulkner

a6ce768

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

writing craft painting creative-process wholeness

Madeleine L'Engle

86472dd

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

writing reasons craft why readers writers

Umberto Eco

4ee6e14

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

writing victims craft novels

John Irving

c3ba936

"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?" [

limitations writing inventiveness dullness familiarity craft creative-process knowledge

Ken Kesey

1ac0174

"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."

writing work craft trade

Annie Dillard

39cd680

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them.

literature poetry writing craft skill self-confidence

A.S. Byatt

6145350

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 is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

craft artist

William Goldman

38729dc

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

writing work followers craft readers

Michael J. Kannengieser

193d05b

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.

writing craft novels

Colm Tóibín

7ff9524

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

craft creation

Cormac McCarthy