Writing is a craft in the way that carpentry is a craft: There’s art to it, sure, and a certain inspiration required of it, definitely, but for the most part you’re just sawing and sanding and getting dust in your eyes.
– Megan Garber
Tag: craft
Quotable 356
It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
– Edouard Manet
Quotable 324
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
– Norman Cousins
Quotable 301
Craft is what enables you to be successful when you’re not inspired.
– Brian Eno
Quotable 283
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
– Ann Patchett
Quotable 27
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
– Ernest Hemingway