Quotes About Enthrallment

But the book! The siren song of the book!

Yet we are also drawn to people who are not exemplary, who do not illustrate good sense and responsibility, who are temperamental as stallions, mercurial as falcons, sensual as cheetahs. Before them we relax our compulsion to judge, no longer feel that they have a responsibility to answer to and for what they do and say. We are enthralled by the human animal, the animality in humans, the traits humans acquire in symbiosis with noble animals.

Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.

Every day is filled with opportunities to be amazed, surprised, enthralled—to experience the enchanting everyday. To stay eager. To be, in a word, alive.

Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

Of course! Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

I like audiences to crane their necks.

fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.

I was waiting for something to sink my teeth into, so I was all-in to be Miss Ivory of The RTC. It was great fun too!

They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.

Evie's eyes widened. "More interesting than dope and sorcery?

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

Because if it's told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.

No one has ever made me as starstruck as Sutton Foster.

Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

And one thought of the French word for hostess, entraineuse, which meant to pull, to magnetize, to lure in her wake.

A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

The house had me in thrall.