Cesare Pavese Quotes

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

I'm on a search for the truth.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

I do not seek. I find.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

I've always liked discovering things.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.