My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self insideout and backward, then fell into a crack and lost it's name and died alone and hollow-empty in the angry dark.
She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.
No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're...
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom th...
Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth ...
Wolsey always said that the making of a treaty is the treaty. It doesn't matter what the terms are, just that there are terms. It's the goodwill that matters. When that runs out, the treaty is broken, whatever the terms say. It is the processions tha...
The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at the page would make my prose feel true. But I had th...
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.
The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
