The Quest
“One can never quite account for the process through which some particular area in the vast extent of history suddenly lights up in the mind and arouses a passionate desire to explore it further.”
Premio Iternazionale Galileo Galilei
“One feeling which prevailed greatly with me, and could never find an expression odd enough for itself, was a sense of the past and present together in one– a phenomenon which brought something spectral into the present… It must not be forgotten that the closest unions are those of opposites.”
Autobiography
Welcome to the Quest! I’m Katherine Neville.
The above quotations by two of my favorite authors pretty much sum up my total life experience; they describe everything that I have written to-date, as well as the entire reason I am writing books.
Most readers of my books, whether young or old, or from vastly different cultures, have told me they have reacted, in a personal and immediate way, to a sense of “thereness” in my novels: that they feel they are walking around inside my books, participating in the story, and they don’t want the story to end. These readers feel that they want to know as much as possible about the diverse elements pulled together in my books–landscapes, plots, puzzles, historic figures, ancient mysteries, esoterica, espionage, foods, and such–so they can delve deeper into specific interests, and continue the quest on their own.
That is the exact purpose of this section of my web site: to provide some new threads that we can follow through the labyrinth of ideas, enabling us, each in his own way, to weave a web connecting head and heart, science and art, past and future.
I hope, as this quest continues to emerge, that we can explore such ideas further and share some of the joy we always feel at learning something new. Enabling us to look again at something we thought we knew–but this time, from a new perspective.
The Quest Continues…