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“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”

Writing Believe Ends Bits Process Fiction Pieces Produce Argument Luck Nervous Controlled Worthwhile Breakdown Nervous Breakdown

Book:Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.”

Trying Problem Together Jobs Three Process Decision Careers Taken Pieces Week Amount Flow Productions Finance Cash Only Time Inadequate Preps Cash Flow

Author:Joe Johnston

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

Writing Long Book Ends Process Five Pieces Written Minutes Stage Changed Eight Routine Writing A Book Departure Format One Liner Hbo Drastic

Author:George Carlin

“The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.”

Giving Moments Process Attention Creativity Pieces Our Lives Creation Mediums Our Time Greatest Gifts Alterations Decisive Moments

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.”

People Needs Believe Ideas Process Black White Focus Pieces Figures Models Speed Defined Execution Within You Black And White Static Algorithms Business Models

Author:Gurbaksh Chahal

“A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us”

Has Beens Process Pieces Miracle Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.”

World Matter Order Process Space Pieces Written Materials Essentials Structure Series Written Word Spoken Word

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.”

Source: Dance for Two: Essays

“Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Process Pieces Visualization

Author:Judith Schaechter

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

May Done Use Lasts Evil Process Pleasure Hell Pieces Habit Eternal Stones Woods This Life Satan Construction Centre Constructs Builder Arches Keystones Firewood

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Important Matter Process Interest Support Learning Pieces Alive Childhood Middle Subjects Particular Skills Findings Technique Related Glowing Subject Matter

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."”

Feels Kind Sometimes Care Process Creative Pieces Minutes Stupid Huge Genius Ego Holes Fantastic Tyrants Creative Process Dictator Rude Mislead Jellyfish

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with the writers. I'm discussing ideas with the writers and concepts. We're debating and having a dialectic where we are taking a lot of different ideas and trying to synthesize them into the right idea. I'm very much a part of that process. That's my job as the director.”

Trying Kind Ideas Different Jobs Process Pieces Directors Sitting Concepts Down And Sat Discussing Dialectics Different Ideas Right Ideas

Author:Larry Charles

“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.”

“A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.”

Ifs Writing Persons Different Ends Process Pieces

Author:Brian Morton

“Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.”

Character Actors Process Understanding Term Pieces Feet Emotional Scene Setting Settings Tone Discovering Rehearsal Thorough Staging

Author:Kate Winslet

“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.”

Writing Enough Suffering Fun Process Challenges Pieces Fields Serious Materials Shapes Letting Go Research Labor Backgrounds Narrative Beloved Length Flaws Writing Process Paragraph

Author:Bob Shacochis

“I wrote much more quickly when I was younger. Over the years I've required more time in order for the pieces to arrive in a place I am happy with. The process cannot be rushed. I have to live with a piece for quite a while to feel it ultimately is where it needs to be - though anything resembling complete satisfaction remains elusive.”

Needs Feels Years Order Process Pieces Remains Satisfaction More Time Elusive

Author:Michael Hersch

“Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.”

Mean Persons Ideas Different Night Process Focus Pieces Late Painful Articles Multiple Late Night Different Ideas

Author:Noma Bar

“The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things.”

Ifs Trying Different Together Fun Process Pieces One Thing Figures Hundred Different Things Editing Frustrating

Author:Scott Foley

“If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.”

Ifs May Made Process Steps Too Much Pieces

Author:Kalup Linzy

“A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Made Different Age Today Actors Energy Process Pieces Modern Periods Mirrors Myth Relevant Costumes Castles Beard Stimulus Different Times Stimulation

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.”

Thinking Way Persons Process Voice Roles Pieces Conviction Driven My Way Lipstick

Author:Meryl Streep

“I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at SNL, I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you’re going to end up at.”

People Ends Actors Process Pieces Determine Comedian Puzzles Snl

Author:J. B. Smoove

“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.”

Ifs Done Whole Form Process Pieces Effects Products Skills Photography Mass Enormous Propaganda Devices Documents Work Done Agitation

Author:John Heartfield

“The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week.”

Has Beens Ideas Next Process Pieces Four Week Judging Months Paper Response Editing Next Day Publish

Author:Paul Madonna

“'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.”

Trying May Ideas Process Behinds Audience Pieces Movement Communicate Entity

Author:Wayne McGregor

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