Quotes for All
UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They’re helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody’s hurt, not to rush in – all … Read more
The Germans are clear about what they do – cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do – electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do – they’re the workshop of the world. Evan Davis
I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation. Enzo Ferrari
The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop. Eliza Lynn Linton
I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I’m sure some aren’t good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk. Elaine Equi
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to … Read more
There’s always some place to go. You don’t need workshops, you don’t need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. Edward Hirsch
With my students, I don’t offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative’s themes can lay bare a narrative’s tensions. Edan Lepucki
I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you’ve come from – these were from small towns – would you say, I’m a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they’d think I didn’t … Read more