#process

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#done #entirely #i #learned #naked

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#i #integrity #objection #people #process

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#down #had #hard #hard time #kept

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#creative-process #fiction #realism #truth #writing

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life." (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009) ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#creative-process #self-confidence #self-trust #writing #life

We attract what we're meant to because we're aware & self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. Other times we have lessons to learn ↗

— Jay Woodman

#aware #awareness #choose #choosing-peace #choosing-serenity

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it. ↗

— Peter James West

#writing-life #writing-process #life

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#readers-and-writers #reading #writing #writing-craft #writing-process