Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
I'm a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.
you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I think they inject stories with color and flavor, providing a tactile experience.
BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.
All autobiography is fiction.
