Engrossment Quotes

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.

I remember when I was watching 'Lost,' which I loved. I didn't know what was going on, but I still loved it.

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

Reviewing good puzzle books is frustrating, because you get to page one of the introduction, find a curious puzzle, become engrossed for 20 minutes, miss your stop and then fail to get home in time to say goodnight to the kids.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

If you want to give a show, make it real, and people will listen to you more carefully.

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.