I’m a lover of craft myself, but all the mastery I’ve acquired is useless to me if I don’t actually write.
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All the chords in the world won’t put a song in your heart, and all the nifty writing craft won’t give you a story.
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Skill and craft are very helpful, but they are nothing without that gem of an idea that needs translating.
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It wasn’t that these students didn’t know how to write a story, it was that they didn’t know they knew how to write a story.
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Mine has been a lifelong practice of learning whose guidance to follow.
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The force and velocity of that desire had focused his attention so completely that what we call craft arrived to serve it.
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The ideas that come to us that need crafting do not belong to us anymore the than draft day hopes belong to camera operators.
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Do not mistake a lack of interest for a lack of capability.
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The page taught what I wanted to say, and the students teach me what I want to learn.
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If there was only one piece of craft advice I could give a new writer, it would be that your job is to say the most in the fewest words possible.
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The author is a like a lawyer, his readers the jury, and his details the evidence.
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