Quotes About Process

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

If I could turn it on like a faucet then I think it would be kind of unearned. I feel like you need to struggle a little bit to make anything good.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination.

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

When we lay something out and the talent goes out there, I'm part of the creative process of helping putting things together maybe putting things in different places. When they go out there and execute it even better than I have it imagined in my head, it is just a great feeling.

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

It's much too easy to come here illegally and very, very difficult to become an immigrant through lawful process. I think we need to reverse those.

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

Open borders would be clear access to this country without going through a legal immigration process, and that's exactly what Mrs. Clinton is wanting us to do.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.

People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

I work in an impatient way.

I've realized that, as the years have gone on, I have become completely impatient with the demo process.