Amanda Hocking Quotes

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

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

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.

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

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

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

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

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

As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.

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

For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.

I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

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.

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

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