Quotes About Fascination

Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.

It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that we do... so you have to imagine a fuzzier image. Second, fly eyes are faster than our own and are very sensitive to motion.

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.

I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.

I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.

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

The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

I read a lot about serial killers.

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.

Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.

You know who I think is very sexy? Nora Jones.

I think Bjork is sexy.

I think it would be so cool to meet Rihanna, 'cause she's so sexy.

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.