#bestseller

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#becomes #bestseller #book #chick #fascination

My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. ↗

— Dr Annabelle RC

#bestseller #bestsellers #mother #mothers #mothers-and-daughters

B is for bestseller. ↗

— Mark Haddon

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#bestseller #book #bragging #copied #first

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bestseller #could #good #good teacher #many

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. ↗

— Anne Rice

#each #know #list #look #new

Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. ↗

— B.L. Brown

#good-read #inspirational #life-change #love #peace-on-earth

And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #north-carolina #novel #dreams

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#beyond #both #climb #compelled #enjoy

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #north-carolina #novel #life