“Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.” KnowsWorldWantI CanBookBeautifulGivenLossGriefJourneyFindingsPagesPerformancesGenerousAgain And AgainFabulousPackagesEmily Author:Dorothea Lasky
“I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.” GivingTryingCharacterJobsOrderActorsToo MuchAliveJourneyPagesCamerasLikes Author:John Barrowman
“I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.” IfsWritingYearsFirstsI CanBookEndsThreeJourneyPagesSentencesThree YearsVoyagesManuscripts Author:Tom Robbins
“As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.” NeedsLongSometimesHappensArtistJourneyPagesLong TimeDiscoveryTrainClockSchedules Author:Junot Diaz
“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.” WritingWantedSpiritualNovelJourneyPagesYogaTransformationHardestCracksEntertainingAdventurousDiscontentMaxSpiritual TransformationPages Turning Author:Karan Bajaj
“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.” IfsThinkingEnoughCharacterWould BeTurnsFictionJourneyNew YorkCircumstancesPagesSittingVery GoodMetaphorHeavyContemporaryMainstreamThinking About Life Author:Karan Bajaj
“I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.” ThinkingFeelsWritingTryingStoriesJourneyReaderPages Author:Michael Morpurgo
“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” IfsMindFirstsSaidBookHappensReadingMemoriesForeverSawsJourneyPagesSightBoxesThings HappenIceOddNovelistsReading BooksCreamIce CreamPrintedCollectingOdd ThingsInkheart Book:Inkheart Source: Inkheart
“The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being.” IfsReasonMomentsPastDestinyJourneySourcePagesCapableSignificantChosenBridgesEmptinessPresent MomentReceivingQuests Author:Dag Hammarskjold