#seller

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#authors #because #books #booksellers #destination

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#golden #mediocre #talent #touch

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything. ↗

— Gil Kane

#came #comics #down #everything #field

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

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#buyers #commodities #energy #food #just

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#been #best #could #enough #everywhere

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

— Flannery O'Connor

#bestseller #could #good #good teacher #many

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#being there #favorite #favorite films #films #gardener

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. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#best #best-seller #even #had #i

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