Best sellers Quote by Cal Thomas

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a…

— Carlos Fuentes

You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very…

— James Salter

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him…

— Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him…

— Robert Benchley

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

— William Goldman

It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a Best Seller…

— Christel Tait

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out…

— George R. R. Martin

“It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote…

— Jim Gaffigan