Steven Stucky Quotes

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Every day is an adventure.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

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.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

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.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.