#fascination

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#becomes #bestseller #book #chick #fascination

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. ↗

— Eric Brown

#figures #general #genre #i #i think

All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#advance #behind #bit #congo #disappearing

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big. ↗

— Richard Powers

#big #books #components #dialogues #fascination

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#i #intrinsic #like #put #science

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#yearning #hate

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences. ↗

— Meg White

#color #every #every second #fascination #mapped

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect! ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#always #beings #birth #call #even