Blood Quote by Alice Hoffman

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

— Christina Baldwin

Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground.…

— Og Mandino

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

— Peter Turchi

“The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual…

— Christopher S. Hyatt

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

— Elizabeth Berg

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

— Max Fisher

I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men…

— Michael Ondaatje

There are those who follow maps, and those who make them.

— Alberto Villoldo

“And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw brightness and faith…

— Michael Ondaatje

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps.…

— Russell Hoban

“Anyone can read a map, but its the choice of which path one follows that makes the difference.”

— R. A. Lang