Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Carter

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Brooke Shields

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought.

Constantin Stanislavski

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

Gregory Benford

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Elizabeth Bowen

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Elizabeth McCracken

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Bill Burr

Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.