Multiple choice general knowledge

"Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of which novelist?

  1. Charles Dickens

  2. Albert Einstein

  3. Anne Frank

  4. Ayn Rand
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Explanation

Charles Dickens famously used this maxim to describe his storytelling technique - engaging readers emotionally with humor and pathos while using suspense (making them 'wait') to keep them turning pages. Dickens was a master of serial publication which relied on this technique.

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