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.
Quotes about best-seller (12 Quotes)
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
But I hope that in the lives of the characters, you will find stories worth holding in your memory, perhaps even in your heart. That's the transaction that counts more than best-seller lists, royalty statements, awards, or reviews. Because in the pages of this book, you and I will meet one-on-one, my mind and yours, and you will enter a world of my making and dwell there, not as a character that I control, but as a person with a mind of your own. You will make of my story what you need it to be, if you can. I hope my tale is true enough and flexible enough that you can make it into a world worth living in.
I was pretty confident it was going to do pretty well, but I had no idea it was going to jump to the top of the best-seller list.
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
The publishers wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand that it doesn't have to be a Rosemary Rogers or a Danielle Steel. It has to be more 'Gone With The Wind.'
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Author of the best-seller The Boys of Summer, ... The Head Game.
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.