Quotes About Process

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Courage is a function of process.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

The dating process is not normal for me.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.