Logo
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.... Both are very

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry…. Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work… – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, The Paris Review, 1981

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Woodworking
category

Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he? – C.A. Bartol, The Rising Faith, Chapter XI: Personality, 1873

Category:
Woodworking

The best carpenters make the fewest chips. – English proverb, c.1500s

Category:
Woodworking

The wordsmith cut saws for a living. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Woodworking

Split your own wood, and it will warm you twice. – Old New England Saying

Category:
Woodworking

Random Quotes

Walking is mans best medicine. – Hippocrates

Category:
best

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven oclock in the morning and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. – Moss Hart

Category:
Morning

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

Category:
good

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

Category:
Prison