Quotes About Process

The center of the artistic process—for me—is the attempt to transform a particular feeling, insight, sorrow into a metaphor and then make that metaphor ramify so it holds everything, everything in the world.

his attempts at baking being closer to brickmaking than bread.

In the novel All Flesh Is Grass, one of Cliff's characters, Nancy, who was a writer herself, would say of that profession: "It's a thing you don't talk about—not until you're well along with it. There are so many things that can go wrong with writing. I don't want to be one of those pseudo-literary people who are always writing something they never finish, or talking about writing something that they never start.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

The social and technological process by which we establish facts becomes invisible to us because we naturalize it. Language-dependent and institutional facts come to seem like brute facts to us: this is true for social institutions, like money, but even more so for claims about the natural world which are, in truth, theory dependent: we have naturalized the idea that the heights of mountains should be measured from sea level, an idea that would have made no sense in the Middle Ages.

The act of persistence may be more essential to the meditator than the permanent attainment of Bliss Brain. The true hero may be she who persists, not she who wins. So in your meditation practice, fail happily. Fail an infinite number of times. Falling from ecstasy isn't the problem; it's part of the process. Choosing to elevate your state back to Bliss Brain even if you only succeed in maintaining it for a second is the crucial component of a successful meditation practice.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So as I go along, I outline each book as I write it. I never outline ahead of the writing, but after the writing is done. That keeps the creative side of my brain in control of the writing.

life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.

Mourning is a bitch. And it's a process. You're just not finished with it." "That's the point," she said. "I think I am. At least I want to be. I am so sick and tired of waking up feeling like someone tore off one of my limbs. Every morning, for just a few seconds, I forget. I wake up and it hasn't happened yet. There's nothing but emptiness and calm. And then it comes crashing down and I hate it. I hate it so much.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".

Learning is the process of making ideas, while studying is the process of using those ideas.

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

Strange satisfaction of organizing pencil crayons and sharpening them (the way I used to enjoy sharpening wax crayons as a kid

Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation.

Success is not an event, it is the by product of the activities that transpired before engagement....

It is the journey that is important—not the destination.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.