Books Quote by Albert Einstein

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

— Bryce Courtenay

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

— Fran Lebowitz

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

— Irwin Shaw

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

— Desmond Tutu

No one likes my books except the public.

— Mickey Spillane

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

— Dean Koontz

I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction,…

— Chris Pavone

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

— John Grisham

Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.

— Alex Mack