Josh Gondelman Quotes

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

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

I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I'll take that any day, my man!

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.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

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

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.

With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day.

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

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

I think there's a difference between having a bestselling book - meaning through marketing, PR and buying that first wave of customers - and writing a bestselling book. The second implies that the product propels itself to the best seller list.

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.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

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 got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

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

Every time I had a book come out, I'm like, 'Is it going to be number one?'

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

Nas is such a touchstone in my world.

No one knows why books do well.

When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that's why people love it so much, because they seen a group of kids from Harlem that had almost nothing come up to be platinum-selling artists, and people rode that wave with us.

I like Cardi B!