Experience Quotes

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This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of… — Angelo Patri
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by… — Robert M. Lindner
When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it… — Betty Ford
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive. — Marianne Faithfull
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ...… — Alicia Silverstone
You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,… — Les Miles
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses… — Thomas Jefferson
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience. — Gary Zukav
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's… — Murasaki Shikibu
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use… — Mark Twain
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… — John Green
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a… — Elizabeth Berg
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always… — Ernest Hemingway
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock

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