Quotes About Gripping

What are hands made for but this? For holding. for holding on.

His voice was a caress. No, stringer, it was like a hand gripping her hand, steadying her.

I love your books when I read them I can't stop reading them.

The Consul dozed, snapping awake each time with a sense of falling, hands gripping the edge of the rigid hawking mat. He realized that he should have tied himself in with the single rope he had brought in his bag, but he didn't want to land—the

This book is something else.... It's a must read

whispered, gripping his arm. Holding on, she pulled him to the other side of the tunnel. She put her free hand up on the wall, a

A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you're in tears and laughing at the top of your lungs at the same time it's too late. You're hooked.

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF DANIELLE STEEL "One of the things that keeps Danielle Steel fresh is her bent for timely storylines….The combination of Steel's comprehensive research and her skill at creating credible characters makes for a gripping read." —Newark Star-Ledger

You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you get to at least the end of the chapter

Beautifully wrought and executed with admirable clarity, Lawrence Sheets's gripping, intelligent, and compassionate account of the years following the Soviet empire's end is a must-read for anyone interested in the human cost of change.

Como escritor, solo tienes un trabajo: hacer que el lector siga leyendo.

Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

Michael Crichton entitled PREY (2002). This fiction is a gripping read, in which one learns much about nanotechnology and

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

Plot-driven or character-driven, a novel must grab the reader's emotions and not let go til the final word.

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

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.