Quotes about interest
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Naomi Wolf photo
Homér photo
Christopher Isherwood photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Rick Riordan photo
Steve Martin photo

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Kazuo Ishiguro photo

“I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author

Dunn, Adam. " In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when http://web.archive.org/web/20010625162920/http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/" cnn.com Book News. 27 Oct. 2000 (archived from the original http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/ on 2001-06-25).
Interviews
Context: More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Haruki Murakami photo
Philip Pullman photo
Anne Rice photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
Jeannette Walls photo
Katharine Hepburn photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Meg Cabot photo
Marilyn Monroe photo
David Nicholls photo
Lev Grossman photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Arthur Schopenhauer photo

“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Source: The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

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Kenneth Grahame photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun. I would certainly never be able to be happy, to get married, I could never have children. Hell, I couldn't even get a job as a dishwasher.

Elizabeth Strout photo
George Carlin photo
Richelle Mead photo
Chuck Klosterman photo

“Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.”

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Louis-ferdinand Céline photo
Billy Graham photo

“Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

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Henry James photo
Judy Blume photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo

“You're an interesting woman."
"Your interest has been duly noted.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Frank O'Hara photo
John Steinbeck photo
Douglas Adams photo
Drew Barrymore photo

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”

Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist

Patrick Rothfuss photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“I'm only interested in poetry.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

Graham Greene photo
Jürgen Moltmann photo

“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”

Jürgen Moltmann (1926) German Reformed theologian

Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology

Richelle Mead photo
Joe Hill photo
Jim Morrison photo
Edith Wharton photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo
Jane Austen photo
Donald A. Norman photo

“Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”

Donald A. Norman (1935) American academic

Source: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Robert Greene photo
John Steinbeck photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Ted Hughes photo
John Steinbeck photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Carl Sagan photo
Ned Vizzini photo
Bret Easton Ellis photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Octavia E. Butler photo
Jerome K. Jerome photo
Jane Austen photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Haruki Murakami photo
George Carlin photo
Ambrose Bierce photo

“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Sam Harris photo

“Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”

Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)

David Foster Wallace photo

“Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Mark Rothko photo

“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter

1950's
Source: Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93.; reprinted as 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119
Context: I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!

Meg Cabot photo
Georgette Heyer photo
Gertrude Stein photo
Cecily von Ziegesar photo
Francis Bacon photo

“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Henry James photo