Robin Sloan Quotes

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with, them. I loved learning a new skill. I will never look at a piece of wrought iron the same way now. I can now make semi-decent knife blades and candlesticks myself.

There's so much to learn as an actor.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails

Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.

Don't rap if you do not practice.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.