Quotes About Engrossed

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

When I first read the Bridgerton' script, it blew me away.

With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.

Wenn es tatsächlich das Orm war, das diese Bücher so besonders machte, dann war ich süchtig nach diesem Stoff, süchtig nach jeder von ihm gesättigten Zeile. Essen? Nebensache. Waschen? Zeitverschwendung. Nur Lesen, Lesen, Lesen war wichtig.

That day, engrossed together in the fate of the child, he met her mind to mind and fell in love with her, with every grain of his spirit and cell of his body; with the essential finality of death.

I read the 'Kapoor & Sons' script in a half hour, forty five minutes. Not because I skimming through it... I read it like a book. By the end, I was blown away. I picked up the phone and said, 'This script is gold.'

This was more like it, a narrowed cluttered little shop stacked with books from floor to ceiling and four or five browsers taking their time- putting thumb marks on the new jackets. Nobody paid any attention to them.

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

Charlie … Silena's eyes were a million miles away. See Charlie.

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.

I was possessed by London.

She started reading. She didn't mean to spend long at it, but soon she was devouring every word, oblivious to the creaking old home and the rain outside.

I wasn't prepared to be so... arrested by Jon Hamm.

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

When I was in the middle of Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy – which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist – you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed. Which

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Sunnie could talk to a dead body for an hour before she'd notice the person wasn't breathing, and likely finish her story even after she had.

She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there.

Because he was impressed by it

soaked in music

It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.