Quote by Jarod Kintz

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

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“But when the self—not a fictional character—is the landscape of the story, we can’t afford to be blind to our own themes and the…

— Dani Shapiro

“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is…

— Neil Gaiman

“I see the world is flat and the map flat that records it, and both page and world speak each other forever. Put a…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is…

— Neil Gaiman

“The world seems to be divided between people who like maps and those who don’t.”

— Michael Siegel

“If you're going to have a complicated story,' he once explained, 'you must work to a map; otherwisw you'll never make a of it…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Beyond the wall, the sea stretches out, dark and vast, and I know why – once upon a time – it would have been…

— Ally Carter

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

— Stephen King

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial,…

— Robert Adams

“When you’re a cartographer, having to make maps sort of comes with the territory.”

— Jarod Kintz