I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Will the reader turn the page?

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

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.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.