Quotes About Journey

It didn't much matter where the path went, she wasn't the least bit curious, she just needed a direction.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..

I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.

He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called "normal" people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning.

the passengers are of Mother's

I will even admit that spinach, which I hate, might taste good. But I am not sorry that I came with you, Wynn.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

Unlike any other star kid, I didn't have any A-grade launch. I just did whatever came my way.

The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.

I never really look back. My journey has been unorthodox in many ways. All I do is count my blessings and try to be as present as I can, and I'm thankful for every step of this journey.

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.