Quotes About Exploration

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

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

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

A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.

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

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

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.

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.

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.

Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as far as possible, reaching for the music of words.

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

A writer's most potent tools are the inner mind and the shameless courage to explore it.

I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

I look at the trees and the birds and I know it's not true. I'm not yet sure how to do it, but I'm going to learn.

What you seek is what you will find, but only if you hunt it with all your heart and mind.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

It was a monstrous big river down there.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.