Quotes About Exploration

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

The library is a symbol of freedom.

He prefers his adventures second hand.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

The quickest way from St Petersburg to Kamchatka in furthest Siberia is still often westwards via New York.

The annoying part of wanting to know everything about everything is that it somehow always results in only knowing something about something

food to nourish the imagination

The more I look into this issue, the more I'm convinced that the imagination is this mysterious thread: specifically, the imagination "baptized" and "sanctified" by the Holy Spirit.

we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn't incidental.

I am just going outside and I may be some time

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller each time.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.