Quotes About Captivation

Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web.

She saw it, and an extraordinary change came over her. She seemed scarcely to move, and yet all at once, her whole person was focused on Myers. No white showed around her eyes; they were black and fathomless, shining in the firelight. She was still short and heavy, but with only the slightest change of posture, depth of bosom and width of hip were emphasized, suddenly curved in a promise of lewd abundance. Myers swallowed, audibly.

It's not difficult to be attracted to Rupert Penry-Jones.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

For a couple of pages now you have been reading on, and this would be the time to tell you clearly whether this station where I have got off is a station of the past or a station of today; instead the sentences continue to move in vagueness, grayness, a kind of noman's land of experience reduced to the lowest common denominator. Watch out: it is surely a method of involving you gradually, capturing you in the story before you realize it— a trap.

There are certain things that come along that take precedence over all other events, like natural catastrophes, car accidents, and unexpected meetings with rockstars. These things suck you entirely and leave no room for you to wonder how bored or worried other people might be while you are so completely engaged.

Ready, love? No, don't even try to stand up, I won't allow it. Has anyone ever told you how lovely you look in braids? So innocent and sweet; no, don't scowl, it doesn't become you at all! Up we go!" "Got her, Sir Graham?" "Of course I have her, you fool," the admiral said, but good-naturedly. Above Maeve's head, he shot the surgeon a wink, then kicked the door open with his foot.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

When he smiles at me, I'm lost

Suddenly the guy looked up, his blue eyes catching mine. They made me think of the heart of a glacier, of how, when you touch dry ice with your bare skin, you cannot let go even if you try.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck—you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

No camera could ever capture the look in her eyes and the feeling In her heart when she looks at him.

True love is felonious...You take someones breath away...You rob them of the ability to utter a single word...You steal a heart.

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

Las palabras tienen algo especial. En manos expertas, manipuladas con destreza, nos convierten en sus prisioneros. Se enredan en nuestros brazos como tela de araña y en cuanto estamos tan embelesados que no podemos movernos, nos perforan la piel, se infiltran en la sangre, adormecen el pensamiento. Y ya dentro de nosotros ejercen su magia.