Bestselling Books Quotes

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

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.

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

Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.

I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

There was scarcely a month during 1988 when Thomas Harris' novel, 'The Silence Of The Lambs,' was not on or around the top of the 'New York Times' list of America's bestselling books.

I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Unless any book is selling 30 million copies, like 'Fifty Shades of Grey' did, the big studios are not going to make movies out of them because the cost is too high.

I like Malcolm Gladwell.

I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.

A good title is the title of a successful book.