With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
A novel is a tricky thing to map.
I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.
My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.
If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.
Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.
Life is a journey I don't have a map for
Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is just another example of the homometerological agenda.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.
I have put gay dating on the map.
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.
There's no map to human behaviour.
How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
The map is not the territory. . . The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.