Haruki Murakami Quotes

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Collecting is my passion.

I'm fascinated by people in general and what interests them, what it is that someone connects to or what it is that they're passionate about.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

We all know a lot about something. We all have a passion about something.

Whatever interests is interesting.

My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

Literature has become my life.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.