The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
Good enough is never good enough.
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.
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.
You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff. '
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.
Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
. . . in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.