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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens

Life My Life Tried Composing Write Read Sentences Much

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment. James Dyson

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I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out. John Zorn

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make. Adam Ross

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room. Alan Menken

Big Collaborator Easy Find Composing Idea Like Room Right

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. Alex North

Best Experience Composing Kazan Film

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. Alison Jackson

You Think Everything Constantly See Composing Through Pictures Text Lens

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. Brian Eno

Composing demands a degree of isolation. Cliff Martinez

Degree Isolation Composing Demands

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. David Antin

Together Kind Composing Some Poems Taking Putting Like Very Committed Experimental Process Apart Them Working Things Filmmaker

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. David Mitchell

Creativity Sometimes Matter Think Complex Scale Composing Seeing Similarities More Between Over Stumbling Like Fresh Metaphor Things

I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other. Deborah Wiles

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all. Ennio Morricone

I like composing music, but I love being with my family. Ennio Morricone

Love Music Family Composing Like Being

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. Erin Morgenstern

Complicated Composing Could Write Always Get Order Stories

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. Franz Schubert

God Has-Been Composing Had Simply Like Am Been Done

Some people ask me what instruments I play, but usually I'll just say I'm more of a producer or a composer or songwriter - those are my strongest suits: arranging and composing. Gus Dapperton

Me People Suits Some People Say Those Composer Composing Some Strongest More Songwriter Instruments Arranging Just Ask Producer Play

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway. Hart Bochner

Love You Editing World Sense Way Say Out Composing Directing More Scene More Than Anything Head Look Editing Room Always How Than Shooting Being Want Anything Anyway Room Cut Cutting Turns Sequence

My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively. Himesh Reshammiya

Composing Hobby Profession Therefore Creatively Keep

For musical compositions to reach a high level and to derive from spontaneity, of course, one has to do the necessary steps to learn the rules and regulations of composing high quality music. Ilaiyaraaja

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To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette. James Horner

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