Unexpected Journeys Quotes

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

Life takes you down weird paths.

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.

I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.