Attraction Quote by David Lodge

For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back…

— Erin McKean

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been…

— Paul Goodman

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

— Guillermo del Toro

“A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.”

— Fred Allen

Show business is an impersonal and relatively savage business, and it's always evolving. If you're lucky enough to have a day when you're lauded…

— Ti West

Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity…

— Phil Cousineau

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them…

— Arundhati Roy

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

— Robyn Davidson

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

— Steven Johnson

“There are lots of trips out there. It's even possible to become a conference groupie, going from one seminar to another and being a…

— Michael Crichton

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

— Anonymous