"Let's get one thing clear right now, shall……" — Stephen King

"Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."

— Stephen King

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The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many… — Frank Turner
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best… — Malcolm Gladwell
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite… — Stephen King
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics. — Mark Skousen
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF… — Alan Dean Foster
When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you… — Eric Jerome Dickey
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which… — Ashwin Sanghi
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it… — Jennifer Donnelly
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. — Ursula K. Le Guin
When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon. — Corey Taylor
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation,… — Anthony Burgess

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