Quotes About Discovery

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

I'm happy we're about to start inviting people into the thing we've been working on!! It's called Pinwheel, and it's a way to find and leave notes all around the world.

My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.'

Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.

Look for cars where people might not look, like shopping centres or notice boards as you can find some real gems that other people have not even thought of.

I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.