#raft

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#go #grow #grow up #into #journalism

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#sue-grafton #v-is-for-vengeance #life

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#craft #create #die #either #keep

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#craft #data #equipment #experimental #i

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#because #best #blow #calls #could

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. ↗

— Connie Willis

#although #anything #draft #even #friends

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing-craft #art

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#till-we-have-faces #writing #writing-craft #art

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out. ↗

— Christina Westover

#writing-craft #art

Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and truly creative writer. It will replace attitude with genuine confidence, and empty arrogance with artistry. ↗

— Molly Cochran

#revision #writers-on-writing #writing-craft #attitude