Interactive Process Quotes

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him. Rather, it can be said that collectively they are making something in common

Everything that we design is designing us back

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

it’s no longer doing things to people. It’s not even doing things for people. It’s doing things with people.

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?