Riveting Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
-
Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all the more riveting.…
— Robert Leuci
-
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A…
— Skip Horack
-
Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a…
— Kristen Johnston
-
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie…
— Wayne Thomas Batson
-
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would…
— Peter Orner
-
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all…
— Ron Rash
-
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
-
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
-
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova…
— Keith Donohue
-
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the…
— Edith Hall
-
I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!
— Stewart Francis
-
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan…
— Janette Turner Hospital
-
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and…
— M. William Phelps
-
Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she…
— Lisa Scottoline
-
As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful…
— Dorothea Benton Frank
-
A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting,…
— J. C. Hutchins
-
Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the…
— Geoff Nicholson
-
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a…
— Stuart Dybek
-
Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass…
— Steven W. Mosher
-
A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting. It would…
— Linda Fairstein
Who Wrote These Riveting Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 38 Riveting Quotes, led by these top contributors: