Literary Acclaim Quotes

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

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

I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

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

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.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.

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.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

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

You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned.

Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

I didn't like being a name attached to a book.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.