A good deed bears interest.
Interest on debts grows without rain.
People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)
I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested...
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not ha...
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
I'm not interested in just putting out one hit.
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.
I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
