Quotes About Experience

Some things, as I say, I saw, some discovered, and some dreamed, and I can no longer differentiate between them. But my dreams are as important as anything I acquired by stealth. More important, because they are the intuitive in its purest state. Without them, facts are no more than a kind of debris, unstrung, like beads. The dreams are as true and manifest as the iron fences of France flashing black in the rain. More true, perhaps. They are the skeleton of all reality.

But somebody told me once you have to write what you know." "Hooey! Write what you burn with, and then find out what you need to know to write it.

the Super Structure Principle may be stated as follows: The power of your story is directly proportional to the readers' experience of it, and the readers' experience is directly proportional to the soundness of the structure.

A good story transports the reader to a new place via experience. Not through arguments or facts, but through the illusion that life is taking place on the page. Not

Finish your novel, because you learn more that way than any other.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (24.318–21)

Every author who writes on a variety of topics will have sometimes occasion to describe what he has himself felt.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African Proverb

I would rather live my life than not live it.

The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

If we observe the nature, we well learn too many things which human kind may never teach us.

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.

And how did you learn to bake like that?" "It was in the '60s in Cambridge," Ginger said with a faraway look in her eyes.

but she'd learned that anger and regret were bitter desserts.

She was mature enough to know the difference between endorphin-fueled young love and the type that developed like fine wine over time.

Jack's dad had started smoking during the war, so he'd grown up around the habit.