Milan Kundera Quotes

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.