Quotes About Enthrallment

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

Bewitched is half of everything.

Michael Kitchen is my favourite actor. We were at the same table at an awards once, and I was so thrilled, I had to go and sit next to him... he's mesmeric.

'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

He holds him with his glittering eye—The Wedding Guest stood still,And listens like a three years' child:The Mariner hath his will.

Any time you can completely immerse yourself in something it's fun.

attention Brain Rule #6 We don't pay attention to boring things.

Do you feel you are doing something important or that you care about deeply? Do the content and challenges associated with your work enthrall you? Do you often find yourself surprised by how much time has flown by when you are working? Do you feel passionate about your work? If you have answered yes to one or more of these questions, you are in the fortunate position of being fully engaged by your work.

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

Talk away, Mr. Holmes. I'm just loving it. It's fine!

You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there.

That old black magic has me in its spell.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

I was so hooked to 'The Da Vinci Code' that I jumped out of bed at 2 A. M., and could only go back to sleep after I'd finished the final few chapters.

My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.

He was enjoying himself now. He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

So turn off the television—in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favorite chair?—and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them, because while I was working on this book, I believed in them myself.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.