Book Quote by Ryan North Download Open image “With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day.” — Ryan North ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Computers Day Death Machine Single
Unexpectedly, 'Death's End' turned into a major success. It made a much bigger impact than the first two books in the series and became… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have survived them… — John B. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are… — Russell Grandinetti Copy Share
The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher. — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
We need to encourage our kids to express their feelings. We need to help them find their voice. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have become friends is because the… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school,… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
ComicsAlliance asked if I wanted to do some holiday comics using a new layout and I said ‘HELLO, NEVER IN MY NEAR-DECADE OF MAKING… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
