Quotes About Immersion

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

Lately I am more into music than people.

Awkwardness is a warning against complacency. A connection with the incomprehensible achieved only through immersion in contemporary life, a moment of awareness of the gap between your perception and understanding. It is the urbane corollary to the antique sublime: the social vista that slaps you in the face with the breadth of what you still don't understand.

My days had narrowed to the ambit of my eyes and my fingers' ends.

Na última noite de lua cheia, tomamos a Brenantina, é esse o nome do nosso barco, e partimos da enseada de Brenan, no porto de Brenan, na cidade de Brenan I; cruzamos ao romper do dia o canal de Brenan; passamos junto ao terceiro rochedo de Brenan, para além do farol de Brenan, ao meio-dia avistamos o atol de Brenan, no meio do mar de Brenan. Em Brenan, tudo é Brenan!

Presence is more than just being there.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

it enhances the mixture of presence and escape that constitutes his "ecstasies,

to fix oneself in time

When people chase what they love, they will inevitably seek out and immerse themselves in knowledge flows, drinking deeply from new creative wells even as they contribute their own experiences and insights along the way.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

they stand like giants immersed in Time.

If you wish, gentle reader, you may augment your mental tableau with dramatic orchestral accompaniment.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.

When I read a book, everything around me stopped existing. All the unhappiness in my family--my parents' bitter fights, my grandmother's sadness at having had everything taken away from her--disappeared. I merged with the characters.

I lost track of where I ended and the city began, and after a few blocks, I'd have stretched to include the flower stand, the guy selling "designer" handbags on the corner, the skyscrapers' shining geometry, the scent of roasting nuts, the café with its bowl of green apples in the window, and the two gorgeous shopgirls on break, flamingolike and sucking on cigarettes outside their fancy boutique, eyes closed, rapturous, as though to smoke were very heaven.