Kate Grenville Quotes

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I look for stories everywhere.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me.

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.