Page Turner Quotes

#1. Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#2. Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel.

Gerald Haslam

#3. Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Maggie Shayne

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Still (very still), at the heart of "literary culture" is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner. Amazingly, people continue to want to read that.

David Shields

#5. The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

John Burnside

#6. When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

Karl Urban

#7. Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

Tom Stoppard

#8. I think you can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose, but surely in the final analysis one thing matters above all else - is it a page-turner?

Jamie Holoran

#9. The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner ... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

Thrity Umrigar

#10. The illustrations in the book are beautiful. The story is a great
page-turner and is very clear and easy to read. The children really enjoy answering the questions."-Kay Harling (Director Emerald Preschool & Community Kindergarten, B.Ed Early Childhood.)

Allison Jenkinson

#11. The thing is, if people were books, Ethan would be a bestseller. A sexy, intelligent page-turner you'd find hard to put down, even after it reduced you to a sobbing mess.

Leisa Rayven

#12. I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Barry Hannah

#13. 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Edmund White

#14. In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

Glen Duncan

#15. I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

Guy Maddin

#16. Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. And fit, and he carried himself with a confident poise that inspired trust and respect. He gestured at one of the two seats in front of his glass-and-chrome desk and waited until I sat to settle into his Aeron chair. Against the backdrop of sky and skyscrapers, Mark looked accomplished and powerful.

Sylvia Day

#18. I am the Captain of my own life.

Lexis De Rothschild

#19. A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever ...

Kim Hornsby

#20. Don't sit back and watch other people live out your dreams

JoAnn Michael Young

#21. Life's unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web.

D.A. Pupa

#22. Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.

K.D. Harp

#23. I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Jerry Falwell

#24. A man who has little personality has but little influence for good or otherwise.

Frederick T. Croonborg

#25. Naomi's my girlfriend," I say aloud, just to test the words, see how they feel fucking across my lips. Ronnie flips a page in an old copy of Rollin' Strong magazine and ignores me.
"Yeah, we heard. Sixteen times since we came in here," Josh bitches.

C.M. Stunich

#26. Confidence is highly erotic.

K.D. Harp

#27. It seemed as if the colours of the real world around me had begun to drain away from my having done nothing more than read a few lines she had written.

Haruki Murakami

#28. Holly Barker series was a great read for me. Stuart gives short chapters and continued action all through his books.

Stuart Woods

#29. Life is made for the living.

J.J.V. The Storyteller

#30. Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.

Cheryl Strayed

#31. When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.

Alison Sweeney