Quotes About Engrossment

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

Generally speaking, the person initiating the conversation can expect to do 90% of the talking for the first two minutes. After that, the conversation (if you've reached the hook point) will be much closer to 50/50 talking.

I'm a collaborator and opponent even when I'm not talking. I can't help it. My expressions broadcast my response, even when they're subtle.

To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable. The other way to be interesting is to be interested, curious about the world and about other people - not relentlessly revelatory about yourself.

If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary.

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

It was the kind of job that needed you more than you needed it.

waiting for him to start the conversation.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

It doesn't do any good to sit on the sidelines all the time.

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

There can never silence or dead air so you're constantly having to talk about something even if in your head you're like 'I don't even know what I'm saying right now.' But you have to still be interesting.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out. "I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

I really like involvement with an audience.

In the end, I don't mind how you interact with our IP as long as you're interacting with it every day.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.