John Updike Quotes

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

I like going into places that you never know what you're going to find because you can go in with no ideas and leave with thousands.

The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?