Quotes About Exploration

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

Homeschooling has always been at the back of my mind, because whenever I am with the boys and we are out in different environments their senses heighten and their enthusiasm to learn is at its best.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

TV has become long-form now. A season can be like a 13-hour film, separated into episodes, so you can analyse a character for five years and talk about the things that films used to talk about but don't any more.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

I'm not setting too many expectations for myself. I'm just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

I go to shady places all the time.

Always good to shake it up and do something different.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.

Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.