If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.” — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in… — David Niven Copy Share Image
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years… — Cary Sherman Copy Share Image
Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Most people I meet are stupid. Now, nobody likes to be labeled as stupid because they don’t want to know the truth… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
When Gwyneth Paltrow wore a dress of ours, that was probably our number one best seller besides when the lovely Mrs. [Michelle]… — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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