John Grisham Quotes

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

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.

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life for them. That doesn't happen every time, but those are the best.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

A lot of actors look at scripts and think, 'How will this stretch me as an actor?' But I always thought, 'Do I want to turn the page? Is this going to make people laugh?'

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

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

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.