Gripping Quotes

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

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.

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.

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.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.