Quotes About Process

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

You work really hard on something, and you know you can't always make great work. It just doesn't happen like that, I don't think, at least not for most people, anyways.

I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around.

Grief is a process, not a state.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

What matters is that our country is strong and respected and safe. We really are, you know, a very good country. We make our mistakes, but we're also very, very strong. And so I don't know. You know, I hold grudges. But I do believe in the process. With all my heart, I believe in the process. And I believe in our country.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I'm a big Gucci fan. So, just working with Gucci and seeing his creative process. It was also really cool to work with Scott Storch. He's a legend.

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art.

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

In each of life's events, we have emotions, thoughts, desires, and eventually actions. The expression of that process is called self-revelation.

Love is a choice. And either partner can start the process today.

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.