Quotes About Curiosity

I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn't getting paid for it I would still pursue an active, outdoors lifestyle, researching animals and looking after them.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how people lived in the past and understanding it better.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

I believe one shouldn't shut oneself to any possibilities.

I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant.

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.

I remember going to friends' houses and being fascinated when they got into fights with their siblings.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

I was obsessed with everything and anything; I wanted to learn everything, to read everything, to do everything. I was constantly on sensory overload. I'd hoard dozens of books in my second-grade cubby, and literally try to read two at a time, side by side.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.