Chelsea Handler Quotes

You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned.

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

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

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

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.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

B is for bestseller.

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

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.

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.

Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.

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

I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.