Kelley Armstrong Quotes

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

I hate getting bored.

My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.

I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

Getting bored is not allowed.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

I honestly never turn on the television if I'm alone.

Maybe the first secret is, 'Don't bore people.'

How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can't recall. I have a vague recollection of flipping through magazines in waiting-room-type situations, but what did we do, say, in line at the post office? Waiting for a bus? Waiting for someone to meet us at a restaurant? I mean, did we just look around or something?

I have a natural curiosity about the world, and I just love to talk.

When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.