Art Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel…

— John Grisham

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the…

— Isabel Allende

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the…

— Isabel Allende

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape…

— John Fowles

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my…

— Jean M. Auel

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Authors should be as involved with the marketing of their books as they want to be. No more, no less. I happen to recognized,…

— Steve Almond

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their…

— Sylvia Day