“My craft and my skill is living.”

“It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.”

“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”

“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”

“It warmed my heart that my children had the right priorities: their skills, their images, their views on YouTube.”

“… for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”

“Craft, I would argue, is not an essential part of art, though skill is. That skill may indeed find its expression in draughtsmanship or carving, realised through the hand of the artist, but it may also be directed towards the selection of material or the choice of an expert fabricator.”

“I wouldn’t claim to have mastered my craft, part of the fun is that you are continually learning and reinventing yourself.”

“Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.”

“My life is forever connected with aviation. I cannot live without the sky. I continue to improve my flying skills on modern domestic aircraft, I dream that, perhaps, I will have to lift a peaceful aircraft into space.”