Hit Quote by Frank McCourt

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on…

— Dave Eggers

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

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books…

— Noreena Hertz

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list.

— Michael Connelly

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

— Jon McGregor

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness…

— Sara Nelson

My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of…

— Christopher Castellani