Quotes About Discovery

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.

I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Books are a finer world within the world.

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

When I finish a movie, I get in my camper and drive around the country.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.