"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."

Discovery, Expertise, Learning, Values

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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."

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"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."

Stephen King, American Author

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Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"This scripture is saying that you will always have bread and water on your table."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"You have to discover the essence of your creation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it."

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

Discovery, Truth, Self-Awareness, Observation

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Discovery, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)"

Leigh Bardugo, Israeli Author

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Storytelling

"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

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"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."

Narrative

"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."

Culture

"The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.''How?''You've come more alive."

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