Writing Popularity Quotes

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

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

My whole life, I wanted to write. What validates you as a writer is the adulation of fans... and I've got that... 'Animal Review' is pretty well-known.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds with any frequency. The problem for us is getting people to read and care about our books that much in the first place.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.