Best-Seller Quotes

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

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.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list.

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film."

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

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

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.

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

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

London now has its own John Grisham.

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

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.

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.

There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.

In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

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.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.