Quotes About Discovery

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn't the only reality, there's many.

Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Every bestselling author was once completely unknown. A good book will eventually find its place in the world.

In writing, you learn about the mystery of yourself. In reading you learn about the mystery of the world. Do both and you'll learn much.

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

If your fiction is good and true, your novel's ending will discover itself.

A reader finds a new reality on the page, interacts with an imaginary world, and is enriched by doing so.

I think a good novel is a slow reveal--of the character and the plot. It's a process of discovery for the reader.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Writing is an act of revelation--to one's self and the world.

Reading is a great way to travel anywhere in the world without making reservations. It's a trip to wherever you wish to go.

I read for pleasure, to expand my world, to learn more, to live outside myself, yet enrich my inner life.

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

There's a novel in every life's story. You must have courage, perseverance and use imagination to unearth it.

There's no such thing as a dull life. Every life is a saga.

Writing is the gateway to learning about one's self. Reading is the gateway to learning about the world.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.