Quotes About Curiosity

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

I crave attention and adventure.

I don't want to believe that we're the only beings out there, because to me, that's even scarier than there being other life forms. I think I always like the idea of there being something a little bit crazier than us out there.

You do some crazy things when you're young.

I was very creative when I was a kid. Doing so much stuff, I think that creates a different coordination.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.

I just do things that I'm interested in making and work with the people I'm interested in working with, and it's very important for me to maintain the creative control because, otherwise, I just don't want to do it.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

Let's face it: quaintness is creepy.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.