Andre Aciman Quotes

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

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

B is for bestseller.

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.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

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

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

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

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

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.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

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

The Situation' - my name, or my character - is known worldwide now.

Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read.

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.

We're kind of an international phenomenon.

Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.