#craft

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

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

When adding descriptions to your online listings or printed materials, lead with benefits and follow with features. ↗

— James Dillehay

#crafts-to-make-and-sell #pricing-crafts #sell-crafts #business

I reside in ideas I craft with dreams ↗

— Leanne Dyck

#writing-craft #writing-life #dreams

Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that some combined the two and, while she could see how this would improve the magick, it would dilute the sex. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#magick #sex #wicca #witchcraft #dreams

Most—but not all—of the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn’t want to be anyone’s employee if it interfered with their writing. They were halfway or all the way outside the mainstream and were often not interested in becoming part of the burgeoning corporate society. They had more freedom than your average American. ↗

— Sterling Lord

#writing-process #freedom

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#writing #writing-craft #writing-philosophy #writing-process #imagination