Quotes about "Travel & Adventure"

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane. ”

My friend Josh Glenn compiles terrific lists of genre novels from the mid-20th century. His latest is a list of the ten best adventure novels of 1966. Josh also includes the cover art of early editions of the books, which are always much better than the art on newer editions. I want to read every book in this list! ”

Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own. ”

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political. ”

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that. ”

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world. ”

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies. ”

I hope that we continue with exploration. ”

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' ”

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures. ”