"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature." ― George Henry Lewes Topic(s): Experience More From George Henry Lewes "Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men." "The only cure for grief is action." "Science is not addressed to poets." More In Experience "As an actress, it’s part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything – even if it’s not within your personal experience."― Rachel Weisz "You know, it shouldn’t just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories – just to express human experience from a woman’s perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I’m all about representation."― Diablo Cody "The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night."― Henry Reed