Robbie Coltrane Quotes

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

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

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

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.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

Never in a million years did I think 'Game of Thrones' was going to take off like it did.

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

I thought 'ER' was a really good script, but I didn't have any inkling that it would become the phenomenon that it did, and I don't think anybody did back then.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

When I sang in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne,' I never imagined the song would be such a rage.

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

'Masti' did so well. It was unexpected and clicked very well with masses.

Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.

I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

'Spell it Out' rose to be number 4 on the best-selling Amazon chart - ahead of 'Fifty Shades of Grey!' Who ever would have thought that spelling would one day beat sex - even if it was for only a few hours!

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.