I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived 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.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
