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Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller! -- Carolyn Hart
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. -- Jennifer Egan
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. -- Carlisle Floyd
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. -- David Brin
Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. -- Dave Pelzer
Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it. -- Beth Moore
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. -- John Searles
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. -- Billy Graham
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. -- Jerome Bruner
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live. -- Stephen Hawking
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time. -- Jim Bouton
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control. -- Nikki Sixx
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. -- Jim Bouton
The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere? -- Allison Mackie
I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story. -- Nick Harkaway
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! -- John Mihaljevic
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. -- Simon Schama
Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure. -- Edmund White
Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place. -- Rachel Sklar
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy. -- Owen Gingerich
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping. -- Lisa Unger
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. -- Twyla Tharp
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books. -- Russell Smith
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago. -- Karen Thompson Walker
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
An intensely gripping narrativeexpertly crafted and totally addictivea must read! -- Maggie Reese
David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping. -- Richard Norton Smith
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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! -- J. K. Rowling
... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging. -- Gary Reilly
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. -- Clive James
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. -- Kim Harrison
Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin -- Vicki M. Taylor
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone. -- Sarah Dessen
If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping) -- Pseudonymous Bosch
For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam. -- Ann Coulter
I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up. -- Christopher Paolini
I'm a whore!"Miki hit the brakes...her hands.. gripping the steering wheel, glanced at SaraYou're not wearing any underwear, are you?"Sara let out a strangled squeal..." -- Shelly Laurenston
Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles. -- Julia Glass
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I'm a whore!"Miki hit the brakes...her hands.. gripping the steering wheel, glanced at Sara. "You're not wearing any underwear, are you?"Sara let out a strangled squeal... -- Shelly Laurenston
His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline. -- Tammara Webber
...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27) -- Barbara Blatner
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. -- Margaret Atwood
gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27) -- Barbara Blatner
Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant. -- Deb Olin Unferth
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful. -- Eliot Pattison

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