Top 35 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'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
#3. I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.
Chelsea Handler
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. They don't know who you are, Archer. They have no idea. And they don't deserve to know. Don't let their judgment hurt you.
Mia Sheridan
#12. 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
#13. I have to chuckle at all these Twitter accounts proclaiming "published author". That's the easy part. Selling is harder.
Kitty Luv
#14. 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
#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. 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
#18. What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.
Howard Dean
#19. I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
Carla H. Krueger
#20. He said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life and not a part of myself.
Heather Sellers
#21. 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
#22. We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
Bruce Johnston
#23. 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
#24. as he leaned over the edge of his massive, five-foot yacht
Aliyah Lynn
#25. The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#26. 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
#27. 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
#29. This is the theory ... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating.
Edward Gorey
#30. To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
Robert Carlyle
#31. I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Alice Walker
#32. The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.
Jeannette Walls
#34. Being a good author is more important than being a best-selling one.
Tarang Sinha
#35. Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be 'sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be 'kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.
Greg Behrendt
