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Quotes About Riveting

Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.
~ Jill Mansell
'Never Die Alone' is primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance - Donald Goines would be proud.
~ Elvis Mitchell
It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.
~ Ronald Harwood
Si te ha gustado este libro, también te gustará esta apasionante historia que te atrapará desde la primera hasta la última página.
~ Alice Sharpe
they hide their secrets. Like all great stories, Last Day is a compulsive, twisting mystery dwelling inside a searing portrait of what drives us, as riveting as it is human and true." —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger
~ Luanne Rice
The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.
~ John Burnside
I just cannot do a boring film. It has to be interesting with a good character.
~ Huma Qureshi
I wish I could make myself more riveting but I'm quite standard, as the name suggests.
~ Santan Dave
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
~ Ashwin Sanghi
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
~ Chetan Bhagat
If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.
~ Nick Hornby
I want my films to be entertaining: not comedy, but something which is gripping.
~ Prabhas
'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
~ Ram Charan
have the biggest budget, or be the most fascinating.
~ Sally Hogshead
I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.
~ Sara Sheridan
I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.
~ Betty Churcher
people don't pay attention to boring things
~ John Medina
The antidote for boring isn't to find something even boringer!
~ Gordon Korman
two children, Erik and Alexandra. "ABSORBING AND INGENIOUS." —Kirkus Reviews "[A] riveting, near-future thriller . . .
~ Greg Bear
some men are just too interesting to die
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.
~ Peter York
Be sure to see that the first few pages have the reader on the edge of his seat, unable to put the book down. Most editors only have time to read a few pages before making a decision; make those pages memorable!
~ Judith Saxton
I find her stories quite diverting," Iris admitted. It was true. They were not terribly well written, but there was something about them that was impossible to put down.
~ Julia Quinn