Gripping Quotes

59 quotes by 53 authors

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the… — David Brin
I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen… — Dani Shapiro
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only… — Ken Hom
Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people â€¦ But some? Some stories are so good we wish theyâ€™d… — Dustin Hoffman
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling,… — Eliot Pattison
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence… — Samuel Rutherford
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James
The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range… — Patrick F. McManus
You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the filmâ€”and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded… — Stanley Kubrick
In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend… — William R. Looney III
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true,… — Elmer Kelton
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st… — Carlo D'Este
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting… — William Bernhardt
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. — Carlisle Floyd
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you… — Beth Moore
Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating,… — Edmund White
Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller! — Carolyn Hart
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which… — Milan Kundera
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and… — Owen Gingerich

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