{"quotes":[{"text":"Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["craft","positivity","writing"],"id":5042,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["craft","critics","detachment","insight","writing"],"id":10184,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-ideas","change-direction","change-position","craft","crafty","devil","direct","direction","enemy","evil","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","magic","priority","right-path","risk","safe","safety","satan","take-the-risk","tricks","wrong-path"],"id":11701,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["craft","poets","writing"],"id":22220,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous. ","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["craft","excellence","sherlock-holmes","writing"],"id":24922,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"I believe when you integrate charity in your craft and not just think of the fame and riches it would entitle you with, you will feel this true sense of fulfillment. Carry on your mission, of where God destined you to be- to use His gifts in good ways and not just for yourself.","author":"Elizabeth E. Castillo","tags":["charity","craft","elizabeth-e-castillo"],"id":26280,"author_id":"Elizabeth+E.+Castillo"},{"text":"The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.).","author":"John Gardner","tags":["books","craft","craftsmanship","fiction","genre-fiction","how-to-write","how-to-write-fiction","instruction","low-brow","pulp","pulp-fiction","technique","writing"],"id":26695,"author_id":"John+Gardner"},{"text":"Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it's there inside you. At Crafternoon, you are a CraftStar.","author":"Maura Madden","tags":["art","craft","crafternoon","create"],"id":27281,"author_id":"Maura+Madden"},{"text":"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.","author":"David Bayles","tags":["art","artisan","artist","craft"],"id":27650,"author_id":"David+Bayles"},{"text":"Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["craft","instruction-book","memoir","on-writing"],"id":30520,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":109,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}