Quotes About Curiosity

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

My husband is a journalist as well, and while we love beaches, we can't sit for that long. If we go to a beach destination, there needs to be something else we can do there as well. I need to be around interesting and different people and cultures.

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since the craft was invented.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

I like intellectual journeys.

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.