201 Quotes About Craft

We are the craft of our towns.

Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.

You succeed because you're willing to give everything to your craft- everything!

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

Work done by you with unconditional love and pure devotion goes straight in the category of divine and immortal craft.

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?"[Remember This: Write What You Don't Know (New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1989)]

Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.