Robin Sloan Quotes

'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

When you are young, you just want to play as many games as you can.

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

'Minecraft' is like that, where you might say to one of your friends who doesn't play games, 'Hey, just sit down and try this with me.' There are other games you might put in front of somebody and say, 'I know you don't traditionally play games, but you've got to check this out.'

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it?

The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.