Quotes About Process

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

I always work from an outline.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.