Quotes About Immersion

They were deep within the world, and its hungry latticework structure had consumed the available light.

I'll probably never again feel as intensely about books, read as desperately, and fall as deeply in love with stories and characters as I did that summer. Now when I read, I'm continuously trying to bring back that same immersion, fall in love again, and I judge every book against that impossible ideal. The books I love now aren't necessarily those that are written best, they're those books, like The Thorn Birds and Clan Of The Cave Bear, that bring me closest to that magic.

she loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.

México es una buena escuela para alguien que mira.

Como los seriales de la radio. Vivir emociones ajenas y disfrutarlas.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

In meditation, we have to give ourselves totally, with no holding back. Whatever meditation subject we have chosen, we must become immersed in it;

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.

I think 'Avatar' is much more appropriate to high frame rates because it's like a ride, and it's futuristic, and vividness and sharp edges and clarity would be an asset.

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.

When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.