Quotes About Process

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once.

Desenrolo-me como uma meada multicolor, ou faço comigo figuras de cordel, como as que se tecem nas mãos espetadas e se passam de umas crianças para as outras. Cuido só de que o polegar não falhe o laço que lhe compete. Depois viro a mão e a imagem fica diferente. E recomeço.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be introduced to reality and he supposed that if the experience didn't kill her, it would assist her in the process of growing up. He stepped down and greeted her.

Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel "a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it." She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: "I must tell you how I work. I don't have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing.

should be clear by now that this making-right, or rectification, is not a process. It is already true, in Christ; but it is true eschatologically, from the perspective of the End. The now–not yet dynamic is operative here, as always.

I never consciously thought about going all the way through the 'Gonzaga farm system,' but that's the way it happened.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I was completely fascinated by the studio process and layering sounds and creating soundscapes out of layering massive squalls of sound.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

When you're writing for a movie, you're trying to capture the emotion of a scene. I find it a fascinating process.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

A lot of the time, what happens is, when you shoot in L.A., you tend to be able to do things faster, believe it or not.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

Taking the third step before the first would be fatal.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

Comedy has always been my favourite genre, and I always wanted to be a part of a process which makes people happy. The genre has always been lucky for me.

I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.