Maps Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

“When you are writing a complicated story, you have got to have a map.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start - the way a map that shows to much…

— Haruki Murakami

“a bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.”

— Harry Bauld

“The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing…

— Pete Hamill

“You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not…

— Christopher Herz

“Sometimes life didn’t send you a road map. Sometimes pieces to a puzzle went missing, and you had to patch it together with scraps…

— Taylor Sullivan

“No matter how much planning you do the story will always tell itself the way it wants to be told.”

— Stoo Goff

“Your story does not end in those moments, hardships, or challenges—they are just chapters, small parts of the entire adventure of your life.”

— Nate Green

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

“The roadmap is right in front of you, and your suck can finally be behind you if you execute the plans developed throughout this…

— Nate Green

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan