Paul Celan Quotes

I'm on a search for the truth.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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.

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

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.

Audiences like making discoveries.

I've always liked discovering things.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

Who seeks shall find.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

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.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

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