Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
'The Girlfriend Experience' was definitely the break-out. When it came out, I started getting other opportunities.
I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.
