Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
