Quotes About Adventure

So that's it? asked the expendable. Final decision, said Ram. And it's the right one. Why do you think so? Because we live or die, we'll learn something important from jumping into the fold. Thousands of future travelers will either follow us or not. But if we don't make the jump, we'll learn nothing, have no new options. A lovely speech. It has been sent back to Earth. It will inspire millions. Shut up, said Ram.

Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.

You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

he would have been lost except he started out lost and when you start out completely lost, it's hard to get loster.

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Stories are invented as you go along...

So you're coming along with me, increasing our risk of being identified and allowing Achilles to get his two worst nemeses with one well-placed bomb, in order to save my life?

Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today can be traced back to authors who were writing before the publishing categories existed. From among the readers in the twenties and thirties who loved any or all of these authors arose the first generation of science fiction writers, who knew themselves to be continuing in a trail that had been blazed by giants.

Ender laughed and shook his head. 'You're actually having fun, Val' 'I can't think why I shouldn't.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Who but the adolescent is free to have the adventures that most of us are looking for when we turn to storytellers to satisfy our hunger?

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

hatch. I wouldn't risk another high-speed dock if we don't have to.

if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn't moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He'd expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn't take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would

And because it was possible, there was a part of him that wanted to play it out, see where this path led. I

Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them.

It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world." "What the hell, maybe they can.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.