Novelty Seeking Quotes

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author -- then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after novelties. In other words, be guided by new desires, not by extant needs.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

I try to challenge my ears. I get bored easily.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

I'm a very restless person, and new experiences excite me more than anything else.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something interesting.

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.