#raf

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#both #character #draft #end #every

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

If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody? ↗

— John C. White

#going #how #know #like #policeman

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

I never kid about my warrior demigod status." "Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I’ll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That’s what you are. ↗

— Susan Ee

#attitude

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