Quotes About Process

I want to experiment and include different elements of the music-making process in a song.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

Even during 'Udta Punjab,' I didn't say much until the film was out. I feel it's incorrect to talk about a film until everything falls into place.

Increasingly, we are embedding artificial intelligence into the core of our clients' businesses across every function and process.

When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.

In the social sciences, "survivorship bias" is the common mistake of noting only those things that made it through some selection process while overlooking those that didn't.

I know from experience that people sometimes struggle with this, not because it's complicated but because it's simple. It's too simple. Their project is special, after all, or so they think, and this process doesn't emphasize that, so they complicate the process.

After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?

Our mistake has been to categorize things as art by considering certain phases of the process of creation. But logically this can make all man-made objects art. It is more useful to categorize art by what has become its social function. It functions as property.

There is no set time it takes to compose a song. They come easy sometimes, but more often they are stubborn, difficult things to drag out of the mind.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

one thing she's learnt is that falling hopelessly, helplessly in love is actually a highly selective process

destiny is what we think of as life, while life is the process of destiny!

How does a pearl develop into an oyster? A jagged grain of sand makes its way into the oyster's shell and makes its life unbearable. The oyster exudes slime to cover the grain of sand and the slime eventually hardens into a pearl. The oyster nearly dies in the process. To hell with the pearl, give me the healthy oyster!

I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'l have a book. It is such a pleasurable moment that I type many more title pages than I could ever use.

There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that can take a lifetime to exhaust.