Christopher Buckley Quotes

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I'm not a great writer.

This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.