craft

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

Developing your voice takes... time and practice.

Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the __nd-all,_ and that God__ ability to craft perfect solutions never ends __t-all.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.

Be so good with your craft to the point that you would no longer have to beg for opportunities.

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...