Quotes About Process

What could she know about the waves of time that simply come at a person, one after the other? What could she know about life as the temporary, always partial, survival of that process?

People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a team of people augmenting and adding to the material.

I've been a free agent a couple times now. It's a process. You got to be smart with your decisions.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.