Personal Curiosity Quotes

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

When in school, I was interested in many things other than studies.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

I have a lot of friends in the Australian cricket team, and they have told me a lot about India. Brett Lee was telling me about the food and Bollywood. I am the kind of person who likes to embrace the culture of a place, and I really want to travel and see the various temples around the country.

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

I'm inspired by questions I have that I try to figure out the answers to through my writing.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.