Jack Vance Quotes

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.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

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

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

I'm a builder, first and foremost.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.

People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.