Quotes About Process

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

God is a verb not a noun.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Patience is the secret to good food.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.