Quotes About Gripping

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

We never want the audience to get bored.

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

The court dramas shown in films and TV are often superficial. They should have a gripping storyline, which can keep the audience hooked.

Scourge of the Betrayer is as harsh and profane as anything RichardK Morgan or Joe Abercrombie serves up. Fortunately, Saylards has the skills -and the humor - to pull it off. Snappy dialogue, political intrigue, shadycharacters, gripping action sequences, a poor guy that has no idea what he'sgotten himself into... Yeah, there's a lot to like about this debut.

Everything beautiful felt like a fist clamped around Tess's heart, squeezing.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

God! Whose hand was I holding?

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.

'Humsafar' is addictive; it's a good nasha to have. I remember, when the show was on here in Pakistan, my friends would keep asking me what's going to happen next. And those who didn't see it when it was aired the first time watched all episodes back-to-back because they found it very gripping.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

Of course! Isn't that what a good story does? It pulls you in and never lets you go.

very good book

crowd holding its breath. I'll be fightin' til I'm six feet underground Her eyes were squeezed

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

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.

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.

Ran "Inchon"—it is a brutal but gripping picture about the Korean War and for once we're the good guys & the Communists are the villains. The producer was Japanese or Korean which probably explains the preceding sentence.

You want to be able to read such stories in just one or two sittings. You want them to feel like a hand on your throat.

Il libro era uno di quelli che tengono avvinto un animo delicato e non lo lasciano più andare.

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.