Pages Turning Quotes:

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

- Petra Haden

topic: Pages Turning, People, Sound, Coughing

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Dark, Pages Turning, Scary, Dark Matter

Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and place. The ultimate revelation here: for many women, if not most, 2011 is no different than 1911, but triumph is nonetheless possible.

- Binnie Kirshenbaum

topic: Struggle, Pages Turning, Thought Provoking, Esther

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

source: Interview with Tom Chatfield, tomchatfield.net.

topic: Book, Pages Turning, Ideas, Lost You

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

- Gale Sayers

topic: There Comes A Time, Time To Move On, Libertine, Moving On Love, Moving Up

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

- Lindsey Shaw

topic: Feelings, Fans, World, Lgbt Pride, Pages Turning

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

- Zayn Malik

topic: Book, Pages, Stuck, Pages Turning

There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.

- Zayn Malik

topic: Feelings, Pages, World, Pages Turning

I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.

- Karan Bajaj

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Writing, Pages Turning

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

- Hank Phillippi Ryan

source: "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

topic: Stories, Pages, Journalism, Investigative Journalism, Pages Turning

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

topic: Issues, Goal, Trying, Tobacco, Pages Turning

THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry—lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness—plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night.

- Joshilyn Jackson

topic: Liars, Writing, Heart, Savannah, Pages Turning

Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.

- J. C. Hutchins

topic: Smart, Adventure, Past, Pages Turning

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

topic: Real, Writing, Lucky, Pages Turning

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

- Steven Millhauser

source: Steven Millhauser (2007). “The King in the Tree”, p.5, Vintage

topic: Reading, Fire, Keys, Snapping, Pages Turning

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Reading, People, Together, Pages Turning

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

- Emma Donoghue

topic: Magic, Sound, Paper, Pages Turning

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

- Rita Dove

topic: Children, Book, Hands, Pages Turning

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

- Gail Z. Martin

topic: Adventure, Pages, Twisted, Pages Turning

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

topic: Real, Pages, Plot, Pages Turning

Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It's also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.

- Sara Gran

topic: Smart, Moving, Book, Pages Turning