Golden Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Golden Mediocre Talent Touch
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. — Daniel J. Boorstin 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 tongue in… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams. — Donal Daly Copy Share Image
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent. — T.I Copy Share Image
Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell a lot.… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but… — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food.… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
We're in a golden age for television. TV 25 years ago was slow, plodding , boring. The production values were not great. Today it's… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
