Quotes About Engrossing

On a book by Henry James: Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.

I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.

'The Living And The Dead' is one of those scripts that you read and are instantly compelled and engaged by. It's intelligent, chilling, and engrossing.

But you know what's interesting, Ray?" "No, Fester, why don't you tell me what's interesting?

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit, — almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

I am a teetotaler but I have to say that the film business is intoxicating.

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.

I never forget that a book is not an end in itself. Just like a newspaper or a magazine, a book is a means of communication, which is why I try to grab the reader by the throat and not let go to the end. I don't always succeed, of course; readers tend to be elusive. Who is my reader?

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.Some people are the same way.

Bewitched' weaves a spell of fantasy that televiewers of any age can lose themselves in.

but the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship could be counterfeited when it was being minted anew from moment to moment.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring

Unattached details take all the sparkle out of your conversation.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell.

In the first 20 seconds of talking, your light is green: your listener is liking you as long as your statement is relevant to the conversation and, hopefully, in service of the other person. But unless you are an extremely gifted raconteur, people who talk for more than roughly half a minute at a time are boring and often perceived as too chatty.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.