Quotes About Process

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.

Healing is a process. Sometimes it's quick, and other times it's gruelingly long. You're the only person who knows when it's time to move on and let go.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.