Adventure Quote by Graham McNeill

“This was an adventure, I told myself, an intriguing quest, and one that I would regret not seeing through at least a little further…

— William Boyd

“We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see. Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, sometimes we beg to be taken over…

— Warren Ellis Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man

“I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?”

— Charles Dickens

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that…

— Ted Conover

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“You never finish a book. You only abandon it.”

— Peter Watts

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller