Hackwork Quotes

#1. I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

John Milius

#2. Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. You are covered in blood," Tybalt said again, stressing the words harder this time. "It makes me tense." There was a thud as the guard hit the floor, and Tybalt returned to my side.
"Wow. You must be tense a lot."
He sighed. "You have no idea.

Seanan McGuire

#4. Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

Raymond Simard

#5. The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

Tom Udall

#7. But, new soldier that I was, I understood at last what Cadus had been trying to tell me all along: that life and love and rank were not enough. To be whole in myself, I needed honour, and I had lost it, and could see no way to get it back.

M.C. Scott

#8. Aye, I loved you. I love you still. I'll always love you.

Donna Grant

#9. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

#10. Two things are difficult about writing a novel. Starting and finishing

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#11. A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

Walt Disney Company

#12. Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it - not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them.

Bill Bryson

#13. It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

Ralph Waldo Emerson