81 Quotes About Technique

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Let's talk now about practice and process. You practice technique to get your fingers where you want them to go. You practice theory to understand where they can go and why.You play live and write songs. You practice that to bring the theory and the technique and create art with it. And you seek inspiration to make that art something that's meaningful to you and you can communicate to others.

The best way for a critic to fight against bad art is to keep it a secret.

I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don't you? Like learning to draw before you paint.

Technical civilization has made the great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact.

Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.

One of the joys of reading as a writer is that your eye becomes educated: yes, you may become more critical and abandon a higher percentage of novels halfway through, but when a writer gets it really right, the pleasure and admiration can be all the more intense.