interesting quotes

The invariable law of the newspaper is to be interesting.

- Charles Anderson Dana
 The Art of Newspaper Making,'The Making of a Newspaper Man'.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

- Andre   Paul Guillaume Gide
Attributed.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

- Henry James
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

-John Edward Masefield
  'With the Living Voice'.

As interesting as a wall can be. Shaw

- George Bernard Shaw
c.1930  Asked what he thought of the GreatWall after his flight over China. Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality (1961).

The most interesting ideas are heresies.

- Susan Sontag
  Interview in Salmagundi, Fall^Winter.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

- Gertrude Stein
Quoted in Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin MyAutobiography (1964).

   It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love† It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

- Anthony Trollope
  Autobiography, ch.12.