
Top 25 New York Times Bestseller Quotes
#1. I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
Matthew Lesko
#2. I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
Samantha Shannon
#3. 'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.
Godfrey Gao
#4. I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
Robert Kiyosaki
#5. You don't have to be successful on a grand scale like winning a talent competition or writing a New York Times bestseller - if you have enough small things that you can be successful at then eventually they outshine all your failures.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#6. I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.
Megan McCafferty
#7. I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!
P.N. Elrod
#8. I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
E.L. James
#9. You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
Anne Rice
#10. The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
Fran Tarkenton
#11. 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!
Gregg Allman
#12. Portland's as good a place as any. The food is good, the people are nice. I'm in love with it.
Sasha Roiz
#13. Real life isn't like that. It's one take, unedited, imperfect, and littered with mistakes that we must repeat until we get it right - a truth for for teenagers and adults alike.
Connor Franta
#14. The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.
Jeff Noon
#15. Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
Terry Brooks
#16. I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'
Khandi Alexander
#17. I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.
Lou Holtz
#18. I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
Hilary Swank
#19. I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.
George W. Bush
#20. Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
P. J. O'Rourke
#21. Humility is by definition a starting point - and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point - no journeys needed.
Tim Urban
#22. In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
John Cage
#23. It must be taking enormous energy to do her Janet-did-it-again shtick every day; no wonder she was so worn out.
Aleksandar Hemon
#24. At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.
Princess Diana
#25. Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
Horace
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