Adventure Quote by Reinhold Messner

“There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.”

— Claudio Magris

“There’s an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don’t air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and…

— Ed Viesturs

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

— V. S. Naipaul

“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human…

— James K. Morrow

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of…

— George Bernard Shaw

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

— Louise Boyd

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

— Tom Robbins

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And…

— Paul Theroux

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

— Cilla Black

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and…

— Paul Fussell