Gayle Forman Quotes

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.

I'm a drifter. I go where the wind blows.

I have a mantra that people are naturally, fundamentally and inherently mobile.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Lots of travel, away from home.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

I love writing about people on the road.

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.