Top 29 Craft Inspiration Quotes
#1. Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#2. writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.
William Zinsser
#3. A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember.
Maria Reeves
#4. Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.
Johnny Rich
#5. There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
Kara DioGuardi
#7. I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#8. Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.
Mark Batterson
#9. I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
Olivier Theyskens
#10. The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
Don Roff
#11. Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.
Luke Taylor
#12. Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#13. Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#14. A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.
Stephanie Lennox
#16. All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
James Cromwell
#17. An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.
Chrys Fey
#18. Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#19. But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.
Elizabeth George
#20. I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching.
Robert Lowell
#22. Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.
Today is the day you become a writer.
Alessandra Torre
#23. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!
John Gaver
#24. Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!
Avijeet Das
#25. Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain
Lyn Crain
#27. Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.
Dan Alatorre
#28. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834
William Morris
#29. Learn the writer's craft, write regularly, grow to love the practice for its own sake-and inspiration will either come on a particular day or it won't, but you'll have prepared the way for it.
Dennis Palumbo
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