Subject Interest Quotes

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

I do really well in science, but I just don't like it. It's boring to me. My favorite class is probably Spanish - it's fun all around.

I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.