Quotes About Bestseller

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.

'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.

Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.

In one of the papers he wrote for the All Souls fellowship, he referred to Rousseau's Confessions as "a lucid journal of a life so utterly degraded that it has been a bestseller in France ever since.

His book was a bestseller, and by the end of the year, he had signed a lucrative deal to write three more.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I'll take that any day, my man!

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.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.

invasion titled The Riddle of the Sands. It became his most successful novel.

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Everything about the guy screamed FICTION WRITER, though the species itself broke down more or less evenly into the subcategories: 1. Great American Novelist 2. -New York Times- Bestselling Author Or that highly rare hybrid... 3. -New York Times- Bestselling Great American Novelist

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.

I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don't believe me, you can come into my basement; I'll show you every copy.

It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?