#craft

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world. ↗

— James Baldwin

#poets #writing #change

Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing. ↗

— T.L. Crain

#truth-inspirational #writing-craft #writing-from-the-heart #humor

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#fiction #writing-craft #men

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #speech #writing #inspirational

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim. ↗

— Stephen Root

#bent #character #comedy #crafty #dim

Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#create-your-future #define-your-future #fate #future #inspirational

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#on-writing-frankenstein #writing-craft #imagination

Craft is part of the creative process. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#creative #creative process #part #process

When you are calculating an hourly labor rate, add in an additional thirty percent to that rate cover employment taxes. ↗

— James Dillehay

#how-to-price-crafts #sell-crafts #selling-crafts-online #taxes #business

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#did #fit #i #kids #knew