Quotes About Process

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result.

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.