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Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

Arnold Schoenberg
Writing, Ideas, Enough
Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.439, Univ of California Press
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.