Marcia Muller Quotes

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

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

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

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.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'