“What will be will be well — for what is is well,To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.”
“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.”
“Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)”
“Well, it's interesting, so it's all good.”
“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.”
“He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?”