Process Quotes

“Every time you write a book, you're looking for a different way to write a book.”

“The poem is a walk.”

“For me, the formation of the thought is already sculpture.”

“Chemical analysis and synthesis go no farther than to the separation of particles one from another, and to their reunion.”

“Of course, it is not the victory but the execution of a well-thought-out plan which is the source of the greatest satisfaction in a game.”

“My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket.”

“I’ve always been obsessed with the process of making things.”

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

“The discovery of the positron was a result of a series of experiments which began in 1930.”

“I make a picture of the object in order to understand it.”

“I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on planes. I write in hotel rooms. I write in the back of a taxi. I'm a professional writer. I have a laptop. I carry it with me.”

“What I'm trying to do is to make a certain note, a certain kind of form, a certain kind of landscape, and it's not a question of illustrating a thing.”

“I work on a canvas until I think it is finished. I paint a picture and then I just leave it alone.”

“Science does not aim to give a final answer to anything. It is a process of approximation.”

“Focus on the input, not the output.”

“The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip writing of all its glory, to lay it bare as the process of sticking one word after another.”

“Making a film is like a military operation.”

“There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just a different outcome.”

“We're more like sculptors than composers. We're working with a block of sound.”

“For me, a film begins with a décor, an atmosphere.”