Michael Moore Quotes

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.

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

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

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

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

B is for bestseller.

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

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

I want to be read. When you write a TV show like 'The Wire,' you've got three to four million readers watching your work. Even Grisham doesn't sell that many books.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

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

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.

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

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

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.

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

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

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

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.

'Wild at Heart' created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher's part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.