Adventure Novel Quotes

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.

It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

I love thrillers, and I always have.

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.