Quotes About Journey

ROIers are always reaching out to me to share their appreciation for the experiences, opportunities and connections we have provided and also to express their excitement about taking the next step in their leadership journey.

There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.

The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is that I'm looking for that very thing. I want an idea that begins, I want a middle that is compelling and will bring readers along, and I definitely want an ending.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

I got into real estate very much by accident.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.