The Process Quotes

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

I write to believe in goodness.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

Every company, of course, teaches you so much humanly and professionally [about] yourself and your creative process.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.