Quotes About Discovery

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

...sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.

You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

To read is to live inside a new world...

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

Doubt is the father of invention.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.