Quotes About Curiosity

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.

Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.

I've tried to shop in stores that have brands that aren't known or pieces of clothing that aren't as easy to find.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I chase after inspiring stories.

People love dark stories because they take you to a place you think you don't want to go but really you do.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

I was just so intrigued with good stories from the time I was a little girl. When my parents would take us out to dinner, I would bring a book along. And they were perfectly happy with that.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.