Quotes About Captivation

though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And

Why hadn't I realized that I was bringing into her presence one of the most alluring beings I've ever know?

I see these mortals in a more attentive light. They are so fresh, so exotic and yet so luscious to me, these mortals; they look like tropical birds must have looked when I was a child; so full of fluttering, rebellious life, I want to clutch them to have it, to make their wings flap in my hands, to capture flight and own it and partake of it.

What was it about her that caught at his soul, when he no longer had one?

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...

Earthly minds, like mud-walls, resist the strongest batteries: And though perhaps sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, and keep out the enemy truth, that would captivate or disturb them. Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.

She catches my gaze when I would have turned away.

The way to tame a wild thing is not to pursue it, but to make it pursue you. This is the way Merlins have always been brought to heel.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

He was looking at the most exciting woman he'd ever met.

He breathed in the mesmerizing scent, knowing that if he touched her, if he turned her to face him, if he looked into those bottomless green eyes, he would be lost forever.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Will the reader turn the page?

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Bewitched is half of everything.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

unless you have seen a woman who affected you as Hetty affected her beholders, for otherwise, though you might conjure up the image of a lovely woman, she would not in the least resemble that distracting kittenlike maiden.

From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.

I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control.