Books Quote by Robert Macfarlane

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a…

— Geoff Nicholson

The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

— Tony Grisoni

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just…

— Jan Brett

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in the essay…

— Ben Montgomery

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley

I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's…

— Paul Auster

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

— Mohsin Hamid

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for…

— Leslie Stephen

“It wasn't merely a walk; it was a journey. Behind every opened or closed door, there was a story to tell.”

— Dhari Buyabes

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

— Daniel Radcliffe