#crafts

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗

— John Gardner

#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

[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. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. ↗

— Emile Zola

#becomes #born #craftsman #inside #men

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#learn #life #long #short

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#basic #command #craftsman #know #language

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#fact #first #first of all #hard #here

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#crafts #doing #here #most #wonderful

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#arts #businesses #craftsmen #find #further

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#appropriate #craftsman #cultivate #does #environment

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. ↗

— Lazaro Hernandez

#based #crafts #lot #things #visual