#experience

I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch. ↗

— Lucinda Riley

#experience

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. ↗

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

#editing #reading #writers #writing #experience

We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#experience

Lizbeth?" He barks from the balcony. "Guess what I just caught our daughter doing? Experimenting with beastiality-- with a bird! And you can probably guess which daughter. ↗

— Addison Moore

#experience

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#learning-from-mistakes #experience

[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness. ↗

— William Deresiewicz

#stories #experience

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#experience

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#experience

We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell. ↗

— Gina Lake

#moments #reality #experience

In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still "un-Googleable" . . . life's mystery and magnitude. ↗

— Kim John Payne

#parenting #experience