Quotes About Best Sellers

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

V.S. Pritchett

#2. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Piero Scaruffi

#3. Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.

Amanda Hocking

#4. I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

Elizabeth Banks

#5. It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

Terry Pratchett

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

Aldous Huxley

#7. We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.

Howard Schultz

#8. It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop best sellers and talk shows. The only people that take it seriously are upper middle class people who are lonely and can afford to pay someone to listen to them.

Ian Shoales

#9. Don't just read books that are best-sellers or books that you agree with, challenge your own thinking as you're reading.

Rowena Crosbie

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

Jennifer Weiner

#11. I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

Glen Duncan

#12. 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.

Harold Acton

#13. 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?

Amish Tripathi

#14. 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.

Maurice Sendak

#15. Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

Ken Follett

#16. Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

Gary Wolf

#17. 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.

Colin Callender

#18. I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

Steven Pinker

#19. Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

James Broughton

#20. Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.

Rita Coolidge

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

Jessica Zafra

#22. Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.

David B. Lentz

#23. For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Margaret Bald

#24. One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

V.S. Pritchett

#25. Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. 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.

James Purdy

#27. One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.

Philip K. Dick

#28. finding in motion, what was once in place

Brian Heffron

#29. Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."
- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation".

M.J. Mancini

#30. When I thought about it, though, what I liked best about the session was that Helder said fuck. A good, hard word, a word with a life of its own, a fearless word. A rent in the dry elegance. Fuck.

Heather Sellers

#31. The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there was no protection from the storm that was always brewing in her mind.

Nancy B. Brewer

#32. I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#33. I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#34. This book is written in
a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#35. Because Life is too Serious to be Taken Seriously.

Anonymous

#36. If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.

Rick Carlisle

#37. If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

Robert Lynd

#38. No question, your best times as a cook are the chef de partie years. Chef in charge of a section. It's the best and hardest job in the kitchen.

Tom Sellers

#39. Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says "A Million Copies Sold," did you ever wonder who bought them?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#40. I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Michael Moorcock

#41. Writing a NYT bestseller was a delightful experience. But there are many books which are read by few that should be read and reread by many, as well as books bought by many that are hardly worth the ink.

Ron Brackin