Wolf Blitzer Quotes

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

You do as much research as you can for any project.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

I always work from an outline.