"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."

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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."

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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Learning, Growth, Life

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Adventure, Memory, Choice, Risk

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Experience, Pain, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Read, Book, Write, Life

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Work, Life, Memory

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Sensation, Contrast, Enjoyment

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

Stephen King, American Author

Experience, Truth, Reality, Fear, Today

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Experience, Question, Memory, Pain

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Experience, Age, Insight, Wisdom

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Experience, Love, Youth, Desire, Innocence

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"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."

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"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."

Reading, Read

"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."

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"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."

Work, Now, Years

"I have friends who read my books in Greek."

Friendship, Books, Friends

"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."

Stress, Day, Machine

"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."

Army, Now, Writing

"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."

Time, American, Class, Fiction

"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."

Life,

"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."

Time,