Quotes of: Crafted Keyword

Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.

This Craft of Verse

The art and craft of early childhood teaching is in making decisions about fun, play and work. And it is this crafting that distinguishes the professional from the baby-sitter, parent or child minder.

Susan Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

Phyllis George

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

Kara DioGuardi

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

David Crane

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life Into a Work of Art

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.

A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.

A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

James Lipton

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

Coffee is a warm drink that fosters friendship and tastes great. What more is there to life?

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits indu...

Sherwood Boehlert

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

Cam Newton