Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.
Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
The first thing is how awful it [cancer] was, the experience. You know, when you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.
A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however, and brought into mutual harmony, and it is another matter.
The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.
All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.
I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily digested by any nation.
