Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Tag: experience
Quotable 409
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
– P.D. James
Quotable 377
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
– Joyce Cary
Quotable 330
Art is a summoning of attention. To create it requires the highest directed focus, as does experiencing it.
– Sven Birkerts
Quotable 295
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
– Robert McKee
Quotable 285
We live by stories. It’s the principle by which we organize our experience.
– Tobias Wolff
Quotable 269
If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe 1 book, maybe 3 poems. Writers write from empathy.
– Nikki Giovanni
Quotable 209
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone’s.
– Dorianne Laux
Quotable 163
Few humans can resist a good story. Stories are rooted in a multitude of personal experiences. A good story invites listeners to compare and contrast their own experience with that of the characters in the story.
– Bryan West