Quotes About Exploration

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

I realised that I couldn't live in a box. It was not for me.

I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and I was really chafing against the very minimal brand of domestic realism that I'd read so much of in college.

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.

In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think that it's profound.

First and foremost, if you want to be a good writer, you need to be a good eater. You need to be fearless when it comes to eating, you can't show predilections or bias.

I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

I do listen to more jazz and gospel than anything else, but my ears are still very much open and listening to stuff that comes out. And a lot of times my kids turn me on to stuff.

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

I'm real connected with Australia, you heard? I gotta come up there, man.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out.

The first season of a show's always a rollercoaster because nobody knows what they're doing. You gotta rush through the season trying to figure out: What is this show? And who are these characters?

I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me.

What inspired me was the love of making music and having no one around and just saying, 'I've gotta figure this out.'

We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet.