experience Quotes

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.