#experience

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

#literary-fiction #literature #writers #writing #experience

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#byron #experience #getting #i #later

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#dvd #experience #happens #holding #little

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#clear #experience #get #give #kids

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#approach #experiences #guide #helped #later

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#college #college life #columbia #columbia university #experience

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#become #better #celtic #coach #drive

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry. ↗

— George Strait

#country #entertainment #entertainment industry #experience #great