Quotes About Author

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there's a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?