William Joyce Quotes

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I go wherever the good story is.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

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

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

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.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

I was born to travel and write verse.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.