Quotes About Exploration

I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

We want to take our time with 'Descender' and let the story unfold at its own pace. But we have carefully planned each world and worked to give each its own look and feel. And each of the 9 core worlds will play a role in the series.

Just because I make movies in the scary world doesn't mean I want to visit scary worlds.

Jim Crace's novels have one thing in common, which is that each is set in an entirely original world. None of these worlds is of a specific time or place, but they seem to have some connection to our own lives.

The way I sort of approach my work is that the historical and socioeconomic and cultural worlds that the music is exploring dictate the visual experience and the way that we approach it specifically on film.

In D&D, you're only in that fantasy world. But with GURPS, you can, like, play a game that's Los Angeles film noir, or a game where the premise is you are world-jumpers, and you can go to different worlds.

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.

As we have seen in our own history, the injection of new ideas from other worlds transformed life for all, and with the establishment of new frontier communities far from the reach of the old world, new social systems also formed, more in tune with the fact that it was the individual who had to make the decisions and do the work of pioneering.

When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.

One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to peer into other worlds - even if you aren't going to stay very long.

I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.

I look for anything new and inspiring - in the worlds of makeup but also jewelry and decor. I never know what will inspire me.

Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon.

Our society's youth will grow up knowing that tomorrow can be better, that there are alternatives for the future, that there are living, breathing humans of all colors and creeds out there in the sky building new worlds.

I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I'm taken with his exploration of an idealized childhood fantasy through the lens of adulthood, or coming into adulthood.

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

There are several new species that are discovered each year on our planet alone, science suggests that there could be many more worlds like ours.

I like meeting people from other walks of life and finding out about other worlds, and knowing that I'm fairly adept at one world and really stupid in many others.

Books are low-tech, portable packages of the widest range of human experience, presented in a format which gives time to grasp complex ideas or to spend time in imaginative worlds.