Quotes of: Crafted Keyword

I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

Prayers to Broken Stones

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave.

Werewolves In Their Youth

I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right eve...

Corey Reynolds

I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a cu...

Jennifer Beals

Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.

Making Success Deliberate

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

Peter DeFazio

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

Patti LuPone