“All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.” PeopleI CanBigsEasyWatchesAdventureBrotherMy BrotherRetreatBrothers And SistersBecause I Can Author:Ryan McGinley
“Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.” LittlesAgeTogetherThreeWatchesChildhoodAdventureBlockHanging OutReally GreatBuddySixteenCreeksRadiusStand By Me Author:Scoot McNairy
“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.” WorldChildrenFacesUsedAnimalWonderClassBoysWatchesFantasyMiddleAdventureCloudsGiantsMiddle ClassDragonsCastlesMundaneMiddle Class Life Author:Barry B. Longyear
“I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.” WorldWatchesAdventureTvsClassicTunesCartoonLooney TunesAmazing WorldGumballs Author:Ty Simpkins
“It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindChildrenI CanSometimesFeelingsReadingWatchesAudienceWonderfulAdventureMarvelousReactingChores Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder
“I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there” NeedsTryingAbilityActingWatchesAdventureLowsBudgetsGood WorkSubjectiveCameronSnobbery Author:Lance Henriksen
“People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.” PeopleCharacterAmericaMovingDarkRoomsWatchesAdventureHollywoodPassivityDark RoomMenagerie Book:The Glass Menagerie Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayPastFormFallCausesImaginationBehindsHalfWonderWatchesFailingDoorsAdventureMajorityAppearanceMysteriousCurtainsAdventurousStirringMysterious Things Book:Four Weird Tales Source: Four Weird Tales