Able Quote by Anthony Horowitz

“The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one of the…

— Stewart Lee

“Usually the recipe for a bestseller is to give people what they want. My challenge is and was: Give them what they do not…

— Umberto Eco

“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.”

— David A. Santos

“Write what you yourself would like to read, a story that will entertain and challenge you. If you try and follow the trends or…

— J.D. Trafford

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

I'm trying to exploit the bestseller, in a way, but not in the sense of repeating the formula. It's just that the bestseller did…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great…

— Stephen Hawking

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a few totally…

— May Sarton

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia