Adventure Quote by Gail Z. Martin Download Open image “Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.” — Gail Z. Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Danger Humor Pages Pages turning Prophecy Twisted Unlikely
“Prophecies are a funny thing. They’re nothing but lengthy riddles that only a blessed few can unravel, and yet people hang on to their every word as if Fate’s secrets were being spilled. Prophecies weave patterns of words and symbols into a rope so thick you could hang yourself with it. They cause confusion, hope, paranoia, comfort, fear, and even… — A.P. Bartels Copy Share
There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.” — Robert Poe Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“For the writer, the risks are quite palpable and enduring. With each new character, each new setting, and each new plotline, something dark from… — J.F. Juzwik Copy Share Image
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. — Andrew Hudgins Copy Share Image
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
“Oh, there are little rhymes a mage might use to remember the sequence of what must be done, but the words themselves don't do… — Gail Z. Martin Copy Share Image
Foolishness pours out of an open mouth… but wisdom sneaks in through the ears… — Gail Z. Martin Copy Share Image
“Baxter bounced around like a crazed cotton puff, pouncing and running in circles. I grabbed a treat from the bowl next to the door,… — Gail Z. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image