Quotes About Gripping

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

I want my films to be entertaining: not comedy, but something which is gripping.

Red Alert' is a gripping cold war bomber-command procedural. But read now, you can see 'Dr Strangelove' - the film which took the book as source material - peeping through the gaps.

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.

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.

The core plot of 'Mercury' is so gripping that when I thought of making it as a silent film, it only made it more interesting. Once I finished writing the first draft, making a silent film that's both thrilling and engaging seemed possible. When the film team read the final script, they felt the same.

'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

Gripping, nonstop action and one hell of a heroine. [on Eve of Darkness ]

Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, gripping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

On a book by Henry James: Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.

over her sides, gripping, then

I am faced then with two options:  a) a nightclub filled with the rich, beautiful and famous or b) an early night alone in bed with a book.  Never has any decision been easier. The book was gripping.

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success

He reached out with one bird-claw hand. He closed it around my wrist and I could feel the hot cancer that was loose and raving through his body, eating anything and everything left that was still good to eat.

The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can relate to the character I'm playing.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Content-driven films can make money - something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.