the public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 911 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous.
Quotes about bestseller (15 Quotes)
The New York Times bestseller list only has four categories. There ought to be a fifth category for autobiography. Or perhaps we should call it handicapped nonfiction.
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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!
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.
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
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.
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
What I'm pretty sure is, it is not going to be a No. 1 bestseller for 26 weeks, ... And I'm also pretty sure it's not a disaster. So it's somewhere in the middle.
The Siege of Western Civilization has become an international bestseller. One reason is that its host and narrator, Herb Meyer, provides the clearest possible explanation of what the War on Terrorism is about--and of why our armed forces are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Right now, when so many Americans are questioning the war, we believe its message is more important than ever. And we want to give members of our armed forces--and their families--some 'ammunition' to defend themselves against the war's critics. They're the people who are on the front lines defending our civilization, and we've decided that making The Siege of Western Civilization available to them for free should be our way of expressing our appreciation.
Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.
book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.
The number of presidential biographies that make it on bestseller lists is astonishing. My Kennedy book published in 2003 was on there for eight weeks. I'm an academic I've never had anything like that before.
Poppy and Daisy, meanwhile, can look forward to further immortalisation in a sequel to the book, which, feminist objections notwithstanding, has been on the top 10 bestseller list for several months. I'd really like to do another one, from ages one to three, but after that there comes a time where you have to say, 'That's enough', ... We don't put them in adverts or anything, and I think when they go to school that will be that.
B is for bestseller.