Accompanied Quote by Erik Satie

Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.

— Erik Satie

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

— Pam Houston

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get…

— John Zorn

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

— Paul Hirsch

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always…

— Joan Didion

I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

— Jessi Colter

People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room…

— Bryson Tiller

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

— Abraham Lincoln

I try to take things in my stride, one step at a time.

— Koffee

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa