Quotes About Engrossing

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

I love your books when I read them I can't stop reading them.

Her stare was like a small room he couldn't get out of.

I basically like the unpredictability factor. When I watch a film, if it becomes predictable, I lose interest in it.

For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take away from it is how much fun it is to perform a serialized story.

A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start. (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)

Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking. He began at once.

If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.

I cannot stand not being able to have a conversation with someone and that's the case with a lot of these guys out here. They do not know how to hold a conversation. I'm not trying to waste my time.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you get to at least the end of the chapter

I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.

Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.

It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at dinner.

It's hard to say why with some people you could talk all day and all night, while with others it's a struggle to find enough to say during a single course at diner.

i wonder what they could possible have to say to each other. they're all so boring and they're all trying to make up for it by talking louder.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

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.

The first man I've met since going to sea who doesn't bore me stiff.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I know that you need to be entertaining at the beginning to get people interested, and what interests people is knockouts and excitement.

the stuff you share on a first date should be short, enticing, and exclusively customer-centric.

It did something else that art is supposed to do. Absorb you.