Quotes About Discovery

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.

I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I'm on the wrong track.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Hours of research can cut months of field work.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.