Top 22 Gripping Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Gripping Quotes from famous people such as Jerome Bruner, Pankaj Kapur, John Searles, Prabhas, David Hepworth, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
Jerome Bruner
Content-driven films can make money – something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.
Pankaj Kapur
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
John Searles
I want my films to be entertaining: not comedy, but something which is gripping.
Prabhas
According to the producers of gripping podcast ‘Death, Sex & Money’, these are the three things we think about a lot but need to talk about more.
David Hepworth
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
I hope radio is more popular than it might seem. There aren’t that many radio plays on and I think they have a bit of a bad rep for being not very gripping or low budget or on at funny times.
Charlotte Ritchie
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
We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and ‘Violet’ is very much about leaving those things behind.
Joshua Henry
Women are given their due, and I think female-centric roles are also well-written. But it doesn’t matter who is in the centre – a male or female. As long as it is an entertaining, gripping film, people just enjoy it.
Poonam Dhillon
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
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
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
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
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
If it’s not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.
Nick Hornby
‘Humsafar’ is addictive; it’s a good nasha to have. I remember, when the show was on here in Pakistan, my friends would keep asking me what’s going to happen next. And those who didn’t see it when it was aired the first time watched all episodes back-to-back because they found it very gripping.
Mahira Khan
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
I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.
Jens Lekman
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
What we need is fundamental reform to address the deep social and economic problems that are gripping people and communities nationwide, particularly the least advantaged.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
If you don’t have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you’ve got nothing.
Jennifer Egan