Exploring Ideas Quotes

Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it.

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions - that's behind my curiosity.

I feel like I'm a creative, and I want to take advantage of that.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

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.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

Not everyone agrees. If you disagree with me, I want you to tell me, and I'm going to come back and tell you why it's my opinion.

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.