Quotes About Engrossing

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations on the same theme.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

It's nice not to be too boring.

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

Teachers needed to emphasize the message, not the medium. Ideally, the curriculum should be so engaging that students would forget which language the teacher was using!

'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world . . . and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. . . . all imaginative, engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

I want to be funny and interesting and compelling.

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.

It was really a fascinating book—no wonder he hadn't noticed how fast the time had passed.

I have found, Mr. Noir, that if you make a story with gaps in it, people just step in to fill them up, they can't help themselves.

A riveting mosaic of exciting true stories… I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!

In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.

I discovered in nature the same appeal I found in books. Both were engrossing, filled with the richness of particularities and yet mysteriously universal. Both were the stuff of perspective.

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.