Quotes About Engagement

We can never talk about caring about ourselves, but we can talk about investimg time in our surroundings.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

about your actions. You keep me totally in

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked.

and missed the seeing Charlie participate

And I'm also really, really into the algorithms. Hashtags, shout-outs, geotagging, getting tagged on bigger accounts and on the Instagram Explore page—it's all about climbing a ladder and getting yourself noticed.

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

he's a story i want to know from page one

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

When engaging youth with the Bible-as-story, we must be wary of our impulse to "clarify" what's happening in a given narrative, to explain "what John is getting at" or "what Matthew is trying to say" or "what Paul really means here."13 I've been guilty of this more times than I care to admit, and I'm not alone.