Quotes About Captivation

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.

He had the swarthy good looks and fierce eyes of a pirate or maybe a serial killer.

Sitting there on the swing set, in her bare feet and blue dress, her hair slipping out of its ponytail, she was so gorgeous that it hurt.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

Ayiih! Tell me, does this Chopin know love songs? I have a few I don't sing unless I mean for sure to capture my woman." "This Chopin makes songs so beautiful your knees shake. Dogs cry. The trees moan. Your thoughts fly up nowhere. You can't think. You become flooded in the heart.

Once the story captures my senses, I am no longer conscious of the act of reading words. I am in the story.

I am caught. And he? What does he feel? I am invaded, I lose everything, my mind vacillates, I am only aware of sensation.

When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood waiting, I saw a man I liked. In his writing he is flamboyant, virile, animal, magnificent. He's a man whom life makes drunk, I thought. He is like me.

Her beauty goes to my head.

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

And one thought of the French word for hostess, entraineuse, which meant to pull, to magnetize, to lure in her wake.

We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.

There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

Un ángel! ¡Bah! Todos dicen lo mismo de la que aman, ¿no es verdad? Y, sin embargo, yo no podré decirte cuán perfecta es y por qué es perfecta; en resumen, ha esclavizado todo mi ser.

I could not take my eyes off her dark eyes as she chattered; I could not look away from her animated mouth, her bonny my cheeks; I was lost utterly in the infectious good spirits of everything she had to say, sometimes without even hearing the words with which she expressed it.

The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from being spirited away.

The beauty is the remote power towards sex; no one can stay without its influence and capture by it.

People often just want to look at me or touch me - some even want to kiss me.