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A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page. -- John Maeda
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. -- Tracy Chevalier
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. -- Ernest Gaines
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. -- Laura Bush
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. -- Harlan Coben
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life. -- Elayne Boosler
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read. -- Jill Abramson
Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'. -- George R. R. Martin
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. -- Mark Haddon
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. -- Al Seckel
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. -- Frank Miller
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages. -- Lisa Unger
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. -- John Grisham
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. -- Rick Riordan
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much. -- Neil Gaiman
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that. -- Harlan Coben
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. -- James Rollins
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward? -- Ira Glass
A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page. -- Oprah Winfrey
Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure. -- Gail Z. Martin
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. -- Barbara Tuchman
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world. -- Zayn Malik
How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page. -- Cassandra Clare
A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary. -- Lorrie Moore
At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story. -- Hank Phillippi Ryan
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. -- John Green
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. -- Susan Howatch
VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end. -- Aleatha Romig
I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar. -- Bob Dylan
There is a pretty girl on the face of the magazine and all I see is my dirty hands turning the page. -- Jewel
Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly. -- Janet Evanovich
Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history. -- Peter Lovesey
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page. -- Patrick Carman
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. -- Douglas Pagels
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today. -- Jeffery Deaver

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