Quotes About Experience

I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.

I'm happy I got to share screen space with established actors such as Vikram, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan and still was noticed.

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.