Peter Coyote Quotes

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

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

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

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

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only 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.

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.