#process

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#book #discovery #elimination #end #find

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#creating #feel #feels #i #like

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian. ↗

— Christo

#art #because #book #describe #each

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#ensure #every #integrity #moral #moral obligation

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. ↗

— Paula Cole

#being #i #i am #internal #introvert

Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I've never told and lo! Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other places will do. Art, even the humble autobiographer's, invokes occult necessities. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#art

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#time #alone

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#process #sorrow #observation

That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process. ↗

— Kim Weston

#day #go #great #great time #having

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#child #children #frightening #home #however