14 Gripping Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. Karin Slaughter

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I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series. Colin Morgan

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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

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Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious? Darin Strauss

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Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people want to have, is to keep publishing alive. Scott Spencer

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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

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

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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through. Sam Jaeger

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