The Process Quotes

For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become.

I just needed time alone with my own thoughtsGot treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

Writing is the act of finding out what I think.

I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.

When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process.

The most important lessons are learned during the process. Pay attention to the process.

The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

Your words don't match your vibe, & im trusting my gut this time.

Having and understanding of the 'why' will help having an understanding of the 'how'.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

The creative journey is not a trek through the wilderness, but actually a clearly defined path, which though not visible to our outside eyes, can be felt with our inner senses.

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you're learning about is yourself.

Often we concentrate on the process and forget the results.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.