Action Bronson Quotes

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.

I was born to travel and write verse.

I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never write a story about Indianapolis.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

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.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.