If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
I think I figured out why I don't have more friends. I find dead people more interesting than the living.
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
