Abbi Glines Quotes

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.

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 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.

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

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

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

B is for bestseller.

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

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

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

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.

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

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

I'm a writer and I've had some success.

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.

There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.