Pat Murphy Quotes

Writing a book is an adventure.

I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.

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.

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

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

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'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

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.

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

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.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

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

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

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'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!'

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

I always try, if I can, to travel before I start a writing project. For me, travelling is my education. It inspires me, and it clears my mind and allows me to come back with a cleansed palate.

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.