Quotes About Adventure

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.

While writing 'Bhavesh,' I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way from the entire 'Batman' series, Frank Miller's 'Batman,' Ed Brubaker's 'Batman,' Scott Snyder's 'Batman,' all the way through 'Daredevil' to '100 Bullets,' through so many other graphic novels.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

There's literally nowhere I won't go.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

I was by no means a nun.

I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

I'm a big Disneyland nut.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?