Nancy Pickard Quotes

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

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.

Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.

I've got to keep my name out in the public eye. That's how you get more fans, and the more fans you get, the more want to see you fight for the title.

I can generate attention quickly.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

B is for bestseller.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

I've noticed being back in football that, after some anonymity, people recognise you again. It's a pain in the neck.

Publicity is very important for any actor, especially when you are new, and people need to know you.

I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.