Quotes About Experience

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

No one can travel your own road for you you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.

For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Every day is an adventure, or it's just some thing you do. It's your choice.

Know this much:regret nothing.Each part of your journey is essential to the whole.The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination.Ninetah, the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real.

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

To read is to live inside a new world...