Quotes About Curiosity

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

He didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine, he thought, and the nuances to be teased from its pages are nearly infinite in their variety and coquettish appeal. And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

Is it only in childhood that we are capable of taking in the whole world? What does it do to us that we briefly have that privilege? And, then, what harm , when the fund of novelty in human experience runs dry?

How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.

You know our Alice. She plays hide-and-seek but sometimes forgets to ask someone to look for her.

The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba

Hush, child don't ask personal questions, said the Lion. That's the only kind I have, said Rain.

No es mi intención ser impertinente. Yo sólo intento aprender.

Let's see what we have in the larder. We have eye of newt and toe of frog, carbon-crisp residue of manticore loin, a beaker of all-natural belladonna extract, some wolfbane, some romaine, a poteen of ptomaine, and a few limp radishes in butter, pinched from the platter left out for Marat after his bath, which he never got to since he died therein. Let's have cheerios. I don't know what cheerios are, said Cat. They haven't been invented yet. You'll love them.

The person who would become a lifelong reader should stumble upon very rich stuff first, early, and often. It lived within, a most agreeable kind of haunting.

It's true cats have nine lives, you know. But cats can't count. So I don't know where I am.

The question ocasionally invents the answer. (142)

Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive.

Questioners are often puzzled by others' willingness to act without sound reasons.

Surprise stimulates the brain, and research shows that people who do new things and visit new places—even something as modest as a trip to a new restaurant—tend to be happier.

when encouraging Questioners to take action, it can be useful to remind them, Just try it. It's an experiment.

It's always reading that makes me want to experience things.)

Questioners tend to be very interested in improving processes. They like to eliminate mistakes and make things better.