Best Best Sellers Quotes

God is the celebrity author of the world’s best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn’t had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Kids don’t know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

If you’re looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

If we were a sex manual it’d be a best-seller.

I’m not a best-seller, but through translations, I’ve accumulated some money.

I don’t think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that’s what I aimed to do. I’ve tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it’s all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters’s book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That’s mainstream, in a weird way.

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

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 them, they like them, and they pass them on.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

[As of November 17, 2006] ‘Noelle’s Treasure Tale’ has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children’s best seller list since its October 10 release.

I wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess ‘The Art of the Deal’ is the best-selling business book of all time.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

My father didn’t want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and oneday I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books was hard work, at least I didn’t have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of spare ammunition, or work with associates named Mad Dog.

When Gwyneth Paltrow wore a dress of ours, that was probably our number one best seller besides when the lovely Mrs. [Michelle] Obama wore our dress.

The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I’m talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It’s difficult to get certified sales awards, and it’s a big deal and we didn’t want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.

If I can hit No. 1 on the ‘New York Times’ best-seller list, I’m thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they’re all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That’s what’s called American fiction these days.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.