Adventure Quote by Eleanor Catton

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in…

— Eleanor Catton

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to…

— Terry Brooks

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found…

— Michael Connelly

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

— Stephen King

I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it might earn…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

— Neil LaBute

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often…

— Cynthia Voigt

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

— Peter Heller

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

— Fred Saberhagen

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

— Michelle Monaghan

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

— Giancarlo Esposito