46 quotes found
“Masters and highly successful people are in a romantic relationships with their work”
“ Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”
“Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing.”
“Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam”
“Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.”
“What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thi...”
“Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.”
“...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...”
“Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.”
“Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.”
“I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the end-all, and that Gods ability to craft perfect solutions never ends at-all.”
“I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.”
“T.S. Eliot said to me 'Theres only one way a poet can develop his actual writing apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud and it doesnt matter whe...”
“If youre any good at all, you know you can be better.”
“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous ”
“I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.”
“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach”
“Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.”
“If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that th...”
“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly ...”
