Quotes About Captivation

My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

Sheila Sweeny Higginson

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!

But it was into his eyes she looked, and having once done so, she could not look away again.

He was enjoying himself now. He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

No matter how many tangents he took or how far the tale flew from its starting point before he reeled it back, he had this gift: he knew how to be believed.

Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?

When a storyteller can relate a story to the audience, it causes listeners' ears to perk up. The

One look at her and I was gone. This is the truth, it was first sight. I fell down a well into some shiny dream, and if somebody had thrown me a

Mirabelle attracts men of a different kind. They are shyer and more reticent. They look at her a long time before approaching, and when they do find something about her that they want, it is something simple within her.

I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

The question for every believer is whether we will be satisfied with only a partial transformation or whether we will be so captivated by who He is that we will allow Him to kill everything in us that would inhibit us from becoming a mature manifestation of Christ.

When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

At that time you were to me I know not what incomprehensible force that took captive my life.

was an exotic curiosity all the more endearing for

Cingle was six feet tall with blue eyes and honey-colored hair. Her face was fairly attractive. Her body caused heart arrhythmia—a total, no-let-up traffic-stopper.

If I go all out in the smooth department," Myron said, "women all over the tri-state area begin to disrobe. I need to harness the power.

I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow.