Quotes About Absorption

Reading is an act of possession. You read it, you own it.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

I think there's an inevitable fact that I somehow absorb part of what I'm doing, because that's what you're constantly thinking about, and that's what's in your veins, and that's what you get up at 4:30 in the morning for and fall into bed after.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

It had already crossed her mind that the swimming pool might invite oblivion.

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

Whether I like it or not, he is taking in pieces of me, just as I am taking in pieces of him, too.

Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge.

Music draws me in. As soon as I hear it, I'm there. I'm stuck in it.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Hollywood makes stuff that people absorb, and it lingers in your subconscious.

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.