Quotes About Curiosity

The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.