#raft

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. ↗

— Mark Twain

#huck-finn #loveliness #raft #self-worth #stars

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#writing-craft #business

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

#build #carve #cross #daily #granted

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. ↗

— Michael Apted

#compelling #craft #directors #filmmaking #five

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#every #handicraft #manual #needs #own