Richard Jefferies Quotes

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

Things that are unknown attract us.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.

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

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The unknown is always interesting.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, when you have solved one mystery you uncover others, perhaps to inspire greater poetry