Quotes About Immersion

Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial... To do a play right, really, I'd like to take two years of rehearsal. You study the character by living with him.

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen und sich umwenden zwischen zwei Träumen. Ach, wie gut ist es doch, unter lesenden Menschen zu sein. Warum ist es nicht immer so?

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

This summer night deep down under the stars was all the things you would ever feel or see or hear in your life, drowning you all at once.

And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won.

In the destructive element immerse.

When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. … The story is our lives.

I study and read poems and try to put myself in them.

To seek out, to study, to immerse oneself in, surround oneself with, beauty; to be conscious of one's dependence upon those who create it or, like the performing musician, re-create it. Very little matters apart from this.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." —

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul-- Joyce Carole Oates

The best way to learn a foreign language is to fuck interesting foreigners.

Man is a thinking substance, a portion of the Cosmic Substance; but man is limited, while God has no limits. We are immersed in mind and that mind contains all knowledge and all truth. It is seeking to give us this knowledge, for God delights to give good gifts to his children.

I am a native in this worldAnd think in it as a native thinks.

I am what is around me.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.

Baptism is faith in action.

if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to racing motorcycles—and

flow - a state that some artists experience in their creative moments and that many other people achieve when enthralled by a film, a book, or a crossword puzzle; interruptions are not welcome in any of these situations.