Always Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

— Lee Kuan Yew

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

— Diane von Furstenberg

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

— Jasper Fforde

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

— Jay McInerney

I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

— P. J. O'Rourke

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's no such…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

— James Patterson