Quotes About Experience

It's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing..

We drove in to Biarritz and left the car outside a very Ritz place.

I turned on the light again and read. I read the Turgenieff. I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after much too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me. I would always have it.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

Nadie vive jamás la vida en toda su intensidad, excepto los toreros

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine." - Ernest Hemingway

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Write the truest sentence you know.

Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.

As you get older, it's more difficult to have heroes, but it's just as necessary.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind.

I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be. Still, I was there. I was there as much as anyone else was there.

Spirituality is experienced in our Listening, in our Forgiveness, in our Dark places, in our Confusions, in our stories—not so much in what we "do," but in what and how we be . . . by how we experience the realities that we meet. Spirituality is, in briefest description, a way of life—a way of being.

a journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.

TO LIVE A PRAYERLESS LIFE IS TO MISS THE LIFE THAT GOD CREATED YOU TO EXPERIENCE. YET THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PRAYER CAN BECOME A RELIGIOUS VEIL FOR AN EMPTY LIFE.

finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience. Art becomes profound when it exposes us, explains us, or inspires us.

The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, How am I doing? and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?