Creative Craft Quotes

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

You hoop with a certain expression. That's your art. You've crafted it, so it is your art.

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.