Best Selling Author Quotes

#1. The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

Nolan Bushnell

#2. I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Tawni O'Dell

#3. Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.

James Ellroy

#4. My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

Chelsea Handler

#5. Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, life coach, best selling author, and more. Aleta does private sessions to release old resistance and shift out of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, addictions, infertility, and insecurity at a cellular level.

Jenna Morasca

#6. And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

Erin Morgenstern

#7. Amy Grech has a cinematographer's eye, and a surgeon's hand - at once brutal and tender, unsettling yet humane. These stories linger like traces of an acid trip. Highly recommended!"

- Jay Bonansinga, National Best-Selling Author of Twisted, Frozen,
and The Sinking of the Eastland

Jay Bonansinga

#8. I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Manuel Puig

#9. I'm a Best-Selling author and humorist; my brother points out that a humorist is a writer who's not funny enough to call themselves a comedian. Gotta love family.

Dan Alatorre

#10. I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Jonathan Frakes

#11. There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#12. Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Ken Hill

#13. I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".

Carla H. Krueger

#14. You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

Debasish Mridha

#15. My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Dorothy Allison

#16. Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses.

Margaret Aranda

#17. Haven't already been drawn into her dark and addictive dystopian series, Ann Aguirre is the author of the best-selling Enclave trilogy. Bonus
book three, Horde , came out late last year, so you can read them without the interminable wait in between. In this

Anonymous

#18. I have to chuckle at all these Twitter accounts proclaiming "published author". That's the easy part. Selling is harder.

Kitty Luv

#19. I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

Will Advise

#20. Writers can write whatever they want, but after THE END, when they self publish their book, they become accountable to readers for the quality of the book they're selling.

Eeva Lancaster

#21. When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you. - James Carstairs

Cassandra Clare

#22. I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.

Richard Curtis

#23. Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

Lois Wyse

#24. We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

Simon Cowell

#25. I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

Brian Jacques

#26. You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.

H.P. Oliver

#27. No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

Jay Baruchel

#28. There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Rafael Palmeiro

#29. Being a good author is more important than being a best-selling one.

Tarang Sinha