Anthony Marra Quotes

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

Children are just little scientists.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.