Book Quote by Anh Do Download Open image “I cranked out a book. I didn't expect it to do much, but it's sold 80,000 copies.” — Anh Do ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Copies Expect Much Out
I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that… — Art Wolfe Copy Share Image
I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I love being on stage and connecting with 2000 people, but you don't really see me that often at the Logies and all that… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
Many people told me not to call the book '... Refugee' because Aussies won't buy it. I told them I have faith in Aussies,… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
You know, my mum's never seen me do stand-up. Ever. She's just too lazy to come. — Anh Do Copy Share Image
My mum knows people in the village who died or were affected by Agent Orange who had kids who are disabled. I could have… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I've learnt that the muse is like an angry girlfriend. If she comes knocking you better be home because if you're not, she doesn't… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I started mixing my real life stories into my stand-up, and on stage it's much more powerful. — Anh Do Copy Share Image
One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
This mum comes up, she's got a five-year-old kid and she says, 'Can he have your autograph, you are his favourite person in the… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything about people. Not just, 'what do you do for a living?' but I want to know about their fears and… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
