John le Carre Quotes

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

There are no sure answers, only better questions.