Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.

Sometimes I do have to find out things the hard way.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

Sometimes you can't know until you know.

I learned about sex the hard way... from books.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

no knowledge obtained without risk

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.

XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.