Quotes About Exploration

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

I want my readers to find their own way.

I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

I grew up reading science fiction.