Quotes About Immersion

If you're in a country and you want to learn about it, it's a good idea to go and found out what they have to say for themselves; you might want to write a good story about it, when they're not looking.

It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while.

That was just how Jim was. He saturated. He overflowed. He drowned.

Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.

As does a magician, a writer creates a world, immerses the reader in it, & makes the reader believe it's reality.

The world has locusts, and the world has grasshoppers. I was up to my knees in the world

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

At the base of my right forefinger is an inch-and-a-half diagonal callus, yellowish-brown in color, where the heels of all the knives I've ever owned have rested, the skin softened by constant immersion in water. It distinguishes me immediately as a cook, as someone who's been on the job a long time. You can feel it when I shake my hand, just as I feel it on others of my profession. It's a secret sign, a sort of Masonic handshake without the silliness.

Live the dream for a bit. But keep your eyes open. And be careful. As you'll see, many visitors came to Tangier for a short vacation and remained for life. It's that kind of place.

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.

When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.

Water is indifferent in this way to the objects which fall into it. It does not weigh them; it is they which weigh themselves, after a certain time of oscillation.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

left in 1951 to found a new one in his native Cameroon. Before he died, Pierre described his cancer as "his last and blessed calling, for life is given to man so that, little by little, he can get accustomed to God, and at the end feel himself at home, immersed in God.