Quotes About Engagement

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it — or rather, it is like living it.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it – or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

We need time to lose interest in things.

You and I. We're here. So might as well.

People eat and sleep in the shadow of what we do

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?

I think we ought to have our intercourse now.

It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

They're not calling it the feathery plume anymore," he said, not meeting my eyes, as if to spare himself the pain of my embarrassment. "I already knew that." "They're calling it the black billowing cloud." "Good." "Why is that good?" "It means they're looking the thing more or less squarely in the eye. They're on top of the situation.

Vernon liked to hang around outside the house, waiting for garbagemen, telephone repairmen, the mail carrier, the afternoon news-boy. Someone to talk to about techniques and procedures. Sets of special methods. Routes, time spans, equipment. It tightened his grip on things, learning how work was done in areas outside his range.

To know and not to act is not to know

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.

Have you noticed the weather? asked Thomas. All turned to look for the weather.

Exercise is boring. Everything is boring that does not happen in a chair (reading and writing) or in bed.

The most useful question is not how can I get across what characters are going through? The better question is how can I get readers to go on emotional journeys of their own?

How many have left a permanent mark, branding you with a story that you will never forget?

Who your characters are, how they behave, what they believe, how they think, what they do, and the ways in which they feel are in your control. Why create characters who only raise shrugs? In

Let's talk about me!" Generally speaking, that's not a great idea for handling yourself in social situations. A better plan is to listen and ask questions. Being interested in others is the way to make friends and influence people. In bonding readers to characters on the page, however, the reverse is true. We open our hearts to those whose hearts are first open to us. For

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

Imagine your customer is a hitchhiker. You pull over to give him a ride, and the one burning question on his mind is simply Where are you going? But as he approaches, you roll down the window and start talking about your mission statement, or how your grandfather built this car with his bare hands, or how your road-trip playlist is all 1980s alternative. This person doesn't care.

Never assume people understand how your brand can change their lives. Tell them.