If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually… — Stacy Dragila Copy Share Image
As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I… — Alejandro Escovedo Copy Share Image
Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art.… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other,… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward. — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign… — Carole Nelson Douglas Copy Share Image
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just… — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but… — Joseph Wiseman Copy Share Image
There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I think people in general that don't surf, have a fascination with it. Its definitely much more than a sport or activity,… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another… — Shakira Copy Share Image
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
