Submerged Quotes

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.