In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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.
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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.
